英语词汇the sticks的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	the sticks
词源	the sticks. The sticks is an Americanism for the country, or the backwoods. First recorded in 1905, it derives from the use of sticks by lumbermen for “timberlands.”
随便看	one-s name is mud one-s own man one swallow does not a summer make one thing on their minds one hand on their things one to show one to blow one touch of nature one-trick pony one year-s seeding seven years weeding onion onion-fish only at peace when at war only good indian is a dead indian onomastician onomatopoeia on one-s high horse on one-s uppers on the back burner on the ball on the beam on the boards on the bum on the carpet on the cuff on the fritz on the hind tit teat

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