-neck of the wood- Is this something older generation use? I was listening Business English Potcasts and the idiom of the day was "neck of the wood". I told this to my co-worker (26 years old), and he

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-neck of the wood- Is this something older generation use? I was listening Business English Potcasts and the idiom of the day was "neck of the wood". I told this to my co-worker (26 years old), and he said " that sounds like an old man". Is this true?

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Neck of the woods is a colloquial term used to describe a general location. It basically means "by your location". So if you live in England and I live in the US then I could say "Hollywood is in my neck of the woods" because it is closer where I live than where you live.

Sorry, also in addition to that it is not simply for the older generation (or I'm old!!) I use the term as well. You find it said more by people from the Midwest and Southern parts of the United States where people actually lived in the woods.

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