The phrase
"neck of the woods" is an idiomatic expression that means a specific location or area, often used to describe where someone lives or works.
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I have been married for decades — just about to become a grandfather for the first time — have a nice little house in a very
nice neck of the woods.
I had some lieu time up my sleeve from work, so I ducked up to DD's
neck of the woods for a few hours by the beach yesterday.
For that, I'll forgive Alexander Payne for portraying people near my old
neck of the woods as pretty much clueless and craven.
As an African American Christian who grew up in Robertson's
neck of the woods with aunts and uncles who absolutely experienced racial discrimination in the 1950s and 60s, I find his comments about happy, singing Black people to be insensitive and unconscionable.
It's actually the seed of a marsh grass grown in the Great Lakes region (my hometown's
neck of the woods ☺).
Even if Paris isn't in your future, this month's Pretty Fix outfit is perfect for October in
whatever neck of the woods you're in.
I hope it was still sunny for at least some of the time while you were in our sage and sand
hued neck of the woods.
The temperatures are plummeting, night now dips below freezing here in Toronto, though snow (in our
particular neck of the woods) has not yet reappeared.
Later we headed back to
out neck of the woods and met up with some friends to grab a quick beer in Westover.
As the film begins he's going to meet her parents for the first time at their country mansion, and it's quickly clear to the African - American Chris that he'll be treated as an outsider in this thoroughly
Caucasian neck of the woods.
If you're from the
eastern neck of the woods, you probably prefer the vinegar - based version, but in the central and western part of the state, it's all about Lexington style.
Kingfisher Bay Resort and Fraser Island provide the perfect combination for conference and incentive organisers seeking a destination with a difference and we've got a dedicated meetings website to help you get the best out of your team in our World Heritage -
listed neck of the woods.
At Witch's Rock Surf Shop, you can bring in your board for a custom design by a Costa Rican surfboard artist, and pick up handmade souvenirs locally made in Tamarindo, before or after you ride the wicked waves in this notoriously
gnarly neck of the woods.
In these works, Bourouissa performs a journey in two directions, driven perhaps by a postcolonial disregard for Western hierarchies of genre and medium, or perhaps more prosaically, as a North African artist from an
unprivileged neck of the woods, naively unaware of them.
When you live in Cupertino, California (or anywhere in your
glorious neck of the woods), all you have to do is step outside if you don't like the view inside!
When I sent DD a blurry selfie, he said it was pretty standard sight in his
beachy neck of the woods, but I suspect I was quite the eye - opener in mine.
«I know firsthand that we Staten Islanders and we Brooklynites are all from the
same neck of the woods,» Mr. Gentile said.
Remember last year when Bubbles & Bloggers took a field trip to my
old neck of the woods to get some of that country fall goodness you can't get in the city?
Since I'm not Sydney born and bred I find it amazing that the school you attended means so much, especially in my
current neck of the woods.
I shot these photos over on Dean Street in Cobble Hill which I think is up for the running of one of my favorite streets in my
new neck of the woods.
People are howling about that in
my neck of the woods.»
After losing his job driving a bakery truck, Blankfein's father, Seymour, took a job sorting mail at night at the post office — «which in
our neck of the woods was considered to be a very good job, because you couldn't lose it,» Blankfein said.
Being an Australian, a typical greeting in
this neck of the woods is «g» day.»
Lastly, there was another Pink Slip Party in
my neck of the woods at the Public House in the East 40's and over 400 out - of - work Wall Streeters showed up.
Collette: Chatfield Reservoir is a hidden gem in
our neck of the woods.
They're your advance scouts in Latin America, across Southeast Asia, and in Europe, and each of them will be on hand to tell you all about what life in his or
her neck of the woods is really like.
So home buyers should conduct local research to see what's happening in
their neck of the woods.
The classic straw - man argument, which unfortunately is quite common in
this neck of the woods.
It's turkeys in
this neck of the woods.
Heck, you could come to
my neck of the woods, old NH, and become Episcopalian.
Things are going well in
my neck of the woods.
Check it out here — maybe I'll be in
your neck of the woods.
Tarkington, who saw the effects of the industrial revolution in
his neck of the woods in the late nineteenth century, used the novel to talk about the rise of new technology — in this case, the automobile — and the impact it would have on an idyllic life.
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