IdiomBody & Senses
English
Englishneck of the woods
Meaning: An area; a place.
Example: “What brings you to our neck of the woods?”
Origin: American English from the 18th and 19th centuries. "Neck" had long meant a narrow strip of land, and early American settlers used it for a settlement in a narrow stretch of forest. It later came to mean simply a neighborhood or area.
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