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Neck of the woods   /nɛk əv ðə wʊdz/   Listen
Neck of the woods

noun
1.
A surrounding or nearby region.  Synonyms: locality, neighborhood, neighbourhood, vicinity.  "It is a rugged locality" , "He always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood" , "I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods"






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"Neck of the woods" Quotes from Famous Books



... primitive out here, yet. You want to forget that master and man business, the servant proposition, and proper respect, and all that rot. Outside the English colonies in one or two big towns, that attitude doesn't go in B.C. People in this neck of the woods stand pretty much on the same class footing, and you'll get in bad and get me in bad if you don't remember that. I've got ten loggers working for me in the woods. Whether they're impertinent or profane cuts no figure so long as ...
— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair

... I'm nigh on to seventy. I never hed a doctor but onct in my life, an' then he chopped my arm off when it might hev got well whar it wuz. I kin plow, an' fell trees, an' haul wood. Thar ain't a log-rollin' ner a house-raisin' in our neck of the woods thet Jeb Hawkins ain't sent fer. I kin h'ist a barrel with the best of 'em, and shake up Ole Dan Tucker ez peart ez the next one. Now how about yer scholards? This here horspittle is full of 'em. Pale-faced, ...
— Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories • Alice Hegan Rice



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