| 词汇 | where the hoot owl hollers at noon |
| 词源 | where the hoot owl hollers at noon. A faraway place, so dis- tant and deep in the dark southern woods that even the noctur- nal owl can’t tell day from night. The expression is from the late 19th century. |
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