| 释义 |
back o' Bourke, phr. Austral. slang.
[f. Bourke, a town in the extreme west of New South Wales.]
Remote inland country; the ‘back of beyond’.
1918Campbell & Nelson Dinky-Di Soldier 26 They smile to see me ploddin' on along the Bathurst road, The long, long road that runs to back o' Bourke. 1930Bulletin (Sydney) 3 Dec. 12/2 He [sc. the cadger] had come to town from Back o' Bourke to see the Minister about a wheat scheme. 1933Ibid. 20 Dec. 20/1 Choom had come straight from the ship to the back o' Bourke on book-keeping duty. |