I am stumped in trying to remember the British expression used as a derogatory slant on being relegated / demoted / assigned to a lower position / reduced in rank, or (quite literally) being reassigned to the unsophisiticated and remote regions or villages. I get stuck with "sent off to the 'colonies'," but I know colonies is not the term involved.

I am stumped in trying to remember the British expression used as a derogatory slant on being relegated, demoted, assigned to a lower position, reduced in rank, or (quite literally) being reassigned to the unsophisticated and remote regions or villages. I get stuck with "sent off to the 'colonies'," but I know colonies is not the term involved.

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I am stumped in trying to remember the British expression used as a derogatory slant on being relegated / demoted / assigned to a lower position / reduced in rank...or, quite litteraly, being reassigned to the unsophisiticated and remote regions or villages. I get stuck on "sent off to the 'colonies'"... but I know that "colonies" is not the term involved.

I am stumped in trying to remember the British expression used as a derogatory slant on being relegated / demoted / assigned to a lower position / reduced in rank, or (quite literally) being reassigned to the unsophisiticated and remote regions or villages. I get stuck with "sent off to the 'colonies'," but I know colonies is not the term involved.