10. the sticks,這里的sticks 是“樹林,深林”的意思。
He is a guy in the sticks, how could you expect him to know that?
他住深山老林,他怎么可能知道這事?
stick-thin, 或者 as thin as a stick 骨瘦如柴 I remember her as a stick-thin teenager. 我的記憶里,她是個骨瘦如柴的青少年。
比較:out of the woods脫離深林,意即“脫離危險”。