| 单词 | the middle of nowhere |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe middle of nowhere 3. A remote or inaccessible place (frequently in the middle of nowhere). Also the (also a) road to nowhere: a remote place; (in later use) a situation or course of action offering no prospects of progress or advancement. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > remote or outlying area nookc1480 out-country1639 outland1645 remoteness1694 backwoods1709 back county1775 remote1838 Mountains of the Moon1852 nowhere1871 the sticks1899 way back1901 downstate1905 back o' Bourke1918 far-back1926 woop woop1926 boohai?1946 bundu1946 Dogpatch1946 outback1954 toolies1961 upstate1965 Watford1973 1871 Fraser's Mag. Dec. 715/1 These places [sc. Lapland and Labrador] are the road to nowhere. 1891 W. Morris (title) News from nowhere. 1904 G. Burgess & W. Irwin Picaroons vi. 109 But the end was that I landed two hundred miles from Nowhere. 1910 Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Oct. 13/3 But the retrogade [sic], spiritless Australians risked it, and trekked over the sands, and built their tents in the middle of nowhere. 1945 Internat. Affairs 21 365 The territory..has no natural harbours of first-class quality, no resources for supporting armed forces, and is on the road to nowhere. 1960 Times 21 Nov. (Canada Suppl.) p. xi/2 Hydro-Quebec is starting to move far up the Manicouagan, in the middle of nowhere. 1967 E. G. Cousins Death in Quiet Place i. 10 ‘I never heard of Boling Green.’ ‘You wouldn't, old boy. Fag-end of nowhere, down a two-mile lane from the second-class road.’ 1991 Combat & Survival Mag. Nov. 45/3 Blatting rounds down-range as fast as possible in blind panic is a road to nowhere. 1994 Guardian 2 July 27/4 Antony's mother told him he was mad to be leaving Dublin to go to the ‘arse-end of nowhere’. < as lemmas |
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