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单词 black stump
释义

black stump

noun Australian informal
A notional marker in the outback imagined as being the last outpost of civilization: the true stories of those who go out past the black stump only to never return...
  • This is backblocks Taranaki, out in the ‘never never’, ‘past the black stump’: a rough and rugged land that has beaten most settlers who dared attempt to scrape a living from the landscape.
  • Qantas today assured the Gold Coast it will be flying into Tullamarine and not via the black stump at Avalon.
  • The town seems like the last frontier with its black stump, wide streets, corrugated iron houses and Burke River.

Phrases

beyond the black stump

this side of the black stump

Origin

Early 20th century: black in the sense 'fire-blackened'.

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