In America's lightly regulated supermarket industry, most shoppers in all but the deepest backwoods live just a few minutes' drive from a large supermarket.
The backwoods folks and the swamp dwellers owned neither horses nor mules.
It helped him play the part that Paris imagined for him: that of the noble frontier philosopher and simple backwoods sage — even though he had lived most of his life in Philadelphia and London.
He taught her how to bait a line and fish the shallows for largemouth bass and took her exploring through the backwoods of the Croatan Forest.
Careless distillation in many a backwoods still has caused it to blind the imbibers of "alternative" alcoholic drinks.
The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country hicks had no business at Harvard and probably didn't even deserve to be in Cambridge. She frowned.
You must not carry on as if you had just come from the backwoods.
The era of the backwoods rube is gone.