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Let me tell you about them at the end of the podcast. Today's expression is out in the sticks. Out in? What? The sticks? The sticks is an expression. It just means the country,

the deep country. Why does the sticks means the country, the deep country.

Why does the sticks mean the country?

Well, sticks, STI-C-K-S.

That means, you know, pieces of wood.

So in this case, sticks actually means trees.

So the sticks, lots and lots of trees, the forest.

In the sticks, in the forest, in the country.

Yeah, that's the idea.

In the sticks, the opposite of the city.

So if we think about the city, we might think about the opposite of a city being

a farm, right? You know, you got corn and cows and whatever. But it could also be the desert,

where you got nothing, just sand. It might be the mountains, lots of mountains.

Or it could be the woods or the forest.

And in this case, in the sticks, means the woods, the forest.

It also has the nuance of not too much technology, quiet, dark, sometimes not too smart. People who live in the sticks,

most of them probably didn't go to the university. Well, some of them did, but not most of them. So the idea, in the sticks,

means in the woods, especially in the deep, dark woods. It might be dangerous for some people.

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