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back yard

noun

a yard at the back of a house, etc
in one's own back yard
1. close at hand
2. involving or implicating one See NIMBY

Its handle, she notes, was made from a mesquite tree in her back yard.

The bear retreated, but became a fixture around the neighborhood, raiding garbage cans, taking dips in back-yard pools.

It used to be one of each, but now, he goes three or four times every time he goes into the back yard.

But insults are a very different proposition when they are coming from a foreigner standing in your back yard.

This day the workmen began to make me a sellar door out of the back yard, which will much please me.

I guess it had about a minimum of two bedrooms, rather large back yard.

By-and-by I beat the shoemaker on metres and the son in the back yard, and then I left 'em, for they was no more use to me.

I'd far rather mop out my back yard any day than write the receipt for the lodgers' rent.

Two medium-sized buggy wheels were found in the back yard of a blacksmith shop, which were procured for a nominal price.

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