in the sticks , auch: out in the sticks

London pays for the services most people in the sticks use.

Out here in the sticks, transport was always a problem.

They don't want to live out here in the sticks.

After he returned to his law practice in the sticks, no one would ever hear from him again.

"I'm a city boy, and I thought it would be better living here than out in the sticks," he said.

This was her first time out in the sticks and it's a pretty lonely place.

But those cultural values don't play well in the sticks.

"There are many people who live in the sticks and have no means," he said.

It's very convenient if you live in the sticks like I do.

What he has done out in the sticks is corner a market.