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Easy English expression rehashed.
Hello, everybody.
My name is Coach Shane, and welcome to Easy English Expressions.
Come on.
Let's master English.
Sunday, Sunday.
Where do you live?
Do you live in the city?
Oh, sorry.
My name is Coach Shane.
It's so nice to meet you.
I've been teaching English for almost 40 years.
Can you believe that?
It's amazing.
And I love doing my job.
As an English teacher I've lived everywhere in the United States, in South Korea, and mostly I've lived in big cities, but not anymore.
I'm happy to say I'm in the country.
Today's expression number 288 is when you describe a place that is in the country, deep in the country.
I mean really deep into the country.
You guys, in America, we have Starbucks, Starbucks coffee.
It's everywhere, right?
Everywhere you go, there's Starbucks.
The closest Starbucks to me In the United States, I have to drive two hours.
But an hour away in Canada, there's a Starbucks.
So actually driving-wise, the closest Starbucks to me is in a different country in Canada, and I have to drive an hour because of today's expression.
Enjoy it.
Let's go back in time.
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 mean the country?
Well, sticks, S-T-I-C-K-S.
That means, you know, pieces of wood.
So in this case, sticks mean 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.
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.
You gotta be tough.
You gotta be a man.
So in the sticks, in the woods, out in the sticks.
Why do you say out in the sticks?
It means away, far away in the woods.
Out in the sticks.
Have you ever been out in the sticks?
Oh, I love being outdoors in the sticks.
It's been a while since i have been out in the sticks.
Where i live there's a desert, so every day i i go walking and i'm out in the desert.
And when i'm out in the desert, when i'm in the desert, there's nobody around, just some like lizards uh coyotes, what else?
Sheep, those bighorn sheep.
Yeah.
And me.
That's it.
Some birds, some bugs.
That's it.
No people, no electricity, no telephone service.
I'm out in the desert.
Where's Shane?
Oh, he's out in the desert.
But I would prefer to be out in the sticks.
Oh, I wish I could be out in the sticks right now in the middle of the forest.
Oh, that would be great.
Let's check out the dialogue.
I heard Shane moved.
Yeah, he's out in the sticks now.
How far out?
Far.
He lives on a mountain with no neighbors.
Oh, yeah.
That's where I lived in Korea.
The last place i lived in korea was out in the sticks.
I lived on a mountain, away from everybody, no people around, just trees.
It was fantastic, but there were lots of mosquitoes too.
Yeah, now i'm out in the desert.
There are no people around, very few people.
There's lots of uh, dangerous animals, all Hungry dangerous animals.
Out in the sticks.
Out in the desert.
Out in the fields.
In the prairies.
Out in the savannah.
Out in the city?
Yeah, it makes sense.
The city can be a jungle.
So I want to know the last time you were hungry.
Out in the sticks.
Or perhaps out in the desert.
Do you like being out in the sticks?
Or do you prefer being in the city?
Most of you probably live in the city.
But do you live out in the sticks?
I'm jealous.
I'm serious.
If I can, if I'm lucky, maybe in five years, I'll be back out in the sticks.
I hope so.
Check out the dialogue two more times.
I heard Shane moved.
Yeah, he's out in the sticks now.
How far out?
Far.
He lives on a mountain with no neighbors.
I heard Shane moved.
Yeah, he's out in the sticks now.
How far out?
Far.
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