back blocks
See also: backblocks
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- (slang) Remote countryside.
- 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 223:
- A "brush" with natives in the "back blocks" would have speedily convinced them that they had come to the wrong country in order to escape warfare of a certain kind.