beyond the black stump

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Meaning: (Australia,informal,idiomatic)In an extremelyisolatedplace, remote frompopulatedareas; in themiddle of nowhere.Typically used to refer tooutbackareas.2002, John Perry,Quick and the Dead: Stawell and Its Race Through Time‎[1], page118:While Millard did not shift from log cabin to White House, he did transport himself frombeyond the Black Stumpto strike it rich at Stawell.2004, Leon F. Williams,Rubies of Mogok, Trafford, page104:“Just don't go gettin' serious,” Frank warned. “We don't want any trouble. We're gonna bebeyond the black stumpout there, not at the bloody Lennox Hotel.”2004, John Leonard Spencer,Waving Goodbye to a Thousand Flies‎[2], page241:Kimberly, his eldest daughter who we love dearly, is very pregnant with our great grand daughter, the father of whom I have never met and who has shot through to the outback farbeyond the black stump.

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