East Jesus
English
editProper noun
edit- (US) A fictional remote, backward, inhabited place.
- c. 1954, Behan, Brendan, The Letters of Brendan Behan (1992), page 55
- So G. and I had a good piss-up together, as happy with one another as if we were both natives of East Jesus, Kansas, newly met in the Rue Scribe.
- 1998, Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees: A Novel, page 102:
- I'm just a plain hillbilly from East Jesus Nowhere with this adopted child that everybody keeps on telling me is dumb as a box of rocks.
- 1999, Sarah Bird, Virgin of the Rodeo, page 70:
- Only gave him seventy-five for the night; said he'd get the rest if he worked a black rodeo way the hell and gone over in East Jesus, Texas.
- 2000, David Gergen, Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership Nixon to Clinton, page 151:
- Their staffs were also well looked after—except for the French, whom we packed off to motels in East Jesus in retaliation for their high-handedness toward the American delegation when they had been hosts a year earlier.
- c. 1954, Behan, Brendan, The Letters of Brendan Behan (1992), page 55