| inf., contempt. |
rural areas far from cities or civilization (the sticks: He felt hard done by living out in the sticks • If it were out in the sticks, in a provincial town, this place would do a roaring trade. • In this particular collection he tells the story of a young boy who moves to Astro City from out in the sticks, and ends up becoming a sidekick to a superhero, The Confessor. • True, possibly, though my experience of living out in the sticks is that the emergency services are geared to coping adequately with the distances. • I'm sure the good folks out in the sticks have known plenty of rich metropolitans in their day. • I have one, can't manage out in the sticks without one, but I have absolutely no interest in them beyond that. • The little festival out in the sticks had been catering to the same loyal bunch of bluegrass fanatics for the previous 14 years and doing a fine job of it. • Most of them are based out in the sticks, as it were. • She is now living out in the sticks so she only works two days a week. • Out in the sticks, another shop owner refines her strategy for coping. • Out in the sticks last weekend, the sheep looked like shrivelled prunes on legs. • You get people like this, groupings like this, and almost, cafes like this when you live out in the sticks. • The people who twenty years ago would have bought a big suburban house are now out in the sticks. • We people who live out in the sticks have a better idea of what could potentially happen, we can foresee the trap. • Two bus-rides and a walk in the rain later we found the old dairy farm, muttering under our breaths about the wisdom of locating such an establishment way out in the sticks. • It was a bit of a drag not getting a lift back, as the yard was out in the sticks on an old farm-site, but he was being well paid and a two-mile walk back into Hemel Hempstead was no big deal. • We managed to hire a 30 ft fibreglass boat which surprised us as we'd expected something a little less grand this far out in the sticks. • Some of them were really out in the sticks only a few yards from the Old Sea Bank, just a short mud bath away from The Wash. • If you live out in the sticks or are after specialised items of tackle then mail order is the answer. • Now it seems issues can start in the sticks and land on Westminster's doorstep, fully formed.  lexico.com) |
