foreign parts

Synonyms

abroad overseas aphelion

Examples

A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it. Tom Stoppard

Travel within thyself! The Stone Philosophers with wisest arts Have vainly sought, cannot be found By travelling in foreign parts. Angelus Silesius

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts. H. L. Mencken

Better an ugly duckling from your own village than a beauty from foreign parts. Romanian Proverb

Words in the phrase

foreign parts

Close letter words and terms

foreign nations Foreign Office foreign oppressor foreign people foreign person foreign policies