back of beyond

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back of beyond - a very remote and inaccessible place; "you'd have to go to the back of beyond to find one of those"

depth - (usually plural) the deepest and most remote part; "from the depths of darkest Africa"; "signals received from the depths of space"

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Now and then he volunteered a little, a very little, information about his own sotnia of Cossacks, left apparently to look after themselves somewhere at the back of beyond.

The Man Who Was by Kipling, Rudyard View in context

But Kim did not suspect that Mahbub Ali, known as one of the best horse-dealers in the Punjab, a wealthy and enterprising trader, whose caravans penetrated far and far into the Back of Beyond, was registered in one of the locked books of the Indian Survey Department as C25 IB.

Kim by Kipling, Rudyard View in context

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