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neck of the woods



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Idioms and Phrases

A neighborhood or region, as in He's one of the wealthiest men in our neck of the woods . Originally (mid-1800s) alluding to a forest settlement, this colloquial term is now used more loosely, for urban as well as rural locales.
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Ideally, that’s not the case in your neck of the woods.

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“We’re seeing the beginnings of that same push to extend what they’re calling the logistics capital of the world all the way out into our neck of the woods,” he said.

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He was dealing with major seasonal drift on calendars used in his neck of the woods.

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“It’s creating resilience, and that’s what we need to do — particularly up in that neck of the woods, given the fire risk.”

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Check here to see if there's one in your neck of the woods.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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