English Explanatory Dictionary

back of beyond

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A very remote place.

Pronunciation

EN-AU ck1 back of beyond.ogg

Word forms

back of beyond the back of beyond

Etymology

First attested in the Scottish novelist Walter Scott’s The Antiquary (1816; see quotation). It is quite possible that Scott anglicised a rural expression rather than coined it himself—something he did numerous times with other phrases.

Synonyms

beyond the black stump remote place
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