East Jesus

English Proper noun East Jesus en US A fictional remote, backward, inhabited place. c. 1954, Behan, Brendan, The Letters of Brendan Behan (1992), page 55 So G. and I had a good piss-up together, as happy with one another as if we were both natives of East Jesus, Kansas, newly met in the Rue Scribe. en 1998 Barbara Kingsolver The Bean Trees: A Novel 102 I'm just a plain hillbilly from East Jesus Nowhere with this adopted child that everybody keeps on telling me is dumb as a box of rocks. en 1999 Sarah Bird Virgin of the Rodeo 70 Only gave him seventy-five for the night; said he'd get the rest if he worked a black rodeo way the hell and gone over in East Jesus, Texas. en 2000 David Gergen Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership Nixon to Clinton 151 Their staffs were also well looked after—except for the French, whom we packed off to motels in East Jesus in retaliation for their high-handedness toward the American delegation when they had been hosts a year earlier. See also en BFE en eponyms placeholder terms en Fictional locations