nether » never

Chiefly in:   never regions

Classification: English – idiom-related

Spotted in the wild:

  • Beneath the balcony are shop windows — or are they doorways? or … the entrance to the never regions. (Venice Gondolier, Apr. 7, 2004)
  • Rather worse for wear when I posted this topic originally, so duplicated it when I thought I had actually lost it somewhere in the never regions of my PC. (KVR Audio forum, Apr. 25, 2004)
  • Mr Admin was detained in the never regions of the country and a mystery Southend Central bug wiped out some of the other potential attendees! (Southend Central forum, Dec. 17, 2004)

Possibly influenced by Neverland of Peter Pan fame.

| link | entered by Ben Zimmer, 2005/09/11 |

Commentaries

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    Commentary by Ken Lakritz , 2005/09/12 at 1:46 am

    ‘neither regions’ is also pretty common. Examples:

    As I journeyed forth into the neither regions between the past and the present
    … I have been through the dark chasm of the neither regions. …
    tradesandwelding.edumazin…

    Then, Magic will start to circle the drain, and dissapear into the neither regions.
    forums.livingwithstyle.co…

    What a pain in the neither regions this has become over a three or four hundred dollar part.
    blogs.ittoolbox.com/netwo…

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