parts unknown

English

Noun

parts unknown (uncountable)

  1. An unspecified or unknown place.
    • 1969, John Niven, Years of Turmoil: Civil War and Reconstruction, page 229:
      Andy did break his bargain, lurked in the neighborhood a few days, and then, being pursued by the sheriff, absconded to parts unknown.
    • 2012, Elda Minger, She's The One, →ISBN:
      What with his ex-partner having embezzled most of his detective agency right out from under him and hightailed it to parts unknown, and with Sam not having two dollars to his name at the moment, things were grim.
    • 2024 December 18, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Disney's taxidermized IP is brighter and livelier in Mufasa: The Lion King”, in AV Club‎[1]:
      Eventually, trouble arrives in the form of a band of murderous white lions led by Kiros (Mads Mikkelsen), the self-declared king of all liondom, and Mufasa and Taka set off for parts unknown, hoping to reach Milele.

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