Information om | Engelska ordet BACKBLOCKS

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• Similar slang or colloquial words are "the sticks", "the wops", "the backblocks", or "Woop Woop" in Australia, "the wop-wops" in New Zealand, "bundu" in South Africa (unrelated to "boondocks" or "bundok"), "out in the weeds" in New Brunswick and "out in the tules" in California.
• His reputation has been sullied by Alfred Deakin's description of him as "a crude, sleek, suspicious, blundering, short-sighted, backblocks politician".
• However, when Notta Bit More, a clown from the circus in Stumptown (somewhere in the humdrum backblocks of the United States of America), and a serious-minded orphan boy called Bobbie Downs (but renamed as Bob Up, by the cheerful Notta) drop into Mudge together, this seems to Mustafa to be his chance to send a non-Mudge person out to bring the famous Cowardly Lion to be the ten thousandth lion in Mudge.
• In a review of Barbara Prospers, the Otago Daily Times said that her Barbara books were "a series of lively, intimate pictures, by turn uplifting or depressing, but never pessimistic or cheerless, of the everyday happenings of backblocks life".
• David Eggleton, writing in the New Zealand Listener, described the collection as presenting "a metropolitan's love-hate relationship with the provincial backblocks where he grew up, on the farm", and praised the way Newton "craftily renders a high Modernist tranche of theatre country, saturated in art and literature, layer upon layer like a rich trifle".

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