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Extremely remote. For example, John's about to move to some tiny island, truly back of beyond . This term, used as a humorous exaggeration, relies on the meaning of beyond (or the beyond ) as “a distant place, beyond human experience.” [Early 1800s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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