onde Judas perdeu as botas

Portuguese

Etymology

Literally, “where Judas (the biblical character) lost his boots (i.e. died)”.

Adverb

1. (idiomatic) in the sticks, in the middle of nowhere (in a very distant place)

Usage notes

• To give the idiom a more intense meaning (i.e. to mean an even farther place), botas (“boots”) is sometimes sarcastically replaced by words like meias (“socks”) or cuecas (“underpants”).