back yard

British  

noun

1. a yard at the back of a house, etc

2. 1. close at hand

   2. involving or implicating one See NIMBY

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Example Sentences

In contrast to the danse macabre sequences at the deathbed, Jill overhears the “celebratory sound” of a neighbor’s back yard evening wedding by torchlight.

From Los Angeles Times

“Auntie Dosie had to have three aspirins, but Auntie Hannah, who liked port, stood in the middle of the snowbound back yard, singing like a big-bosomed thrush.”

From The Wall Street Journal

"It feels amazing. I whooped that boy in his back yard," Londoner TKV, who was deducted a point for a low blow, said.

From BBC

The back yard slowly filled with loved ones from Negrete’s various social circles.

From Los Angeles Times

This was a demonstration of how far the “yes in my back yard” cause has come since Sonja Trauss started the San Francisco Bay Area Renters Federation, or BARF, a decade ago.

From Slate

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