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Neck of the woods

DEFINITION

(Old fashioned) Area from which one lives. ‘Woods’ meaning the general area and ‘neck of’ meaning a more specific location. Very old idiom from the days when many people lived

“Hey stranger, what neck of the woods do you come from?”

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