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

"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

Realities that have settled onto L.A. are drifting to Orange County, where the myths have not been altogether uprooted, myths of open space, of suburbs, of “being able to get in your car and drive alone to work at 60 miles an hour, being able to buy a single-family home with a big back yard,” says UCI’s Baldassare.

From Los Angeles Times

Back yard to brilliant - the making of Duplantis, and how high can he go?

From BBC

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