| And while Hong Kong people once disdained Chinese visitors as poor country cousins, the touring mainlanders hardly fit the bumpkin stereotype. |
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| Whether you're a city dweller or a country bumpkin like myself, it seems that we all take pleasure in what nature holds for us. |
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| Sometimes, as in the joke about asking directions from a country bumpkin, the easiest way to get from A to B is not to start at A at all. |
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| Even the conductress will occasionally offer a helping hand to an overburdened bumpkin. |
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| Lee can play the bumpkin well, but it's only a matter of time before the small fact of his knowing kung fu comes into play. |
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| Shortly later, Camillo, the heroine's elderly and ineffectual husband, was enacted by a young beanpole of a bumpkin. |
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| His nerdy bumpkin quality delighted Aura — the best beaches in the world! five different kinds of banana! |
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| This is not just the ten-thousandth variation on the city slicker versus country bumpkin theme, but a refreshing look at what truly makes a difference in life. |
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| Heck, her country bumpkin ballad Let Her Go is as cruisy and bluesy as they come. |
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| Many in his own party regarded him as a country bumpkin who lacked the education and moral character to lead our nation through such a fateful crisis. |
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| Her comedy, one of the most-produced new plays in North America, has a stage-struck bumpkin named Will Shakespeare claiming credit for the scribblings of noblemen. |
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| But he was a country bumpkin at heart, already dressed for the weekend in blue overalls, a red plaid shirt, and an old fashioned railroad engineer's striped hat. |
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| From a distance — say, from the ticket line, which almost never has enough buyers in it to account for the number of tickets available — the Hall of Fame seems little more than a gag, an instance of bumpkin boosterism. |
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| Mr. Tate stood on top, joking like a country bumpkin. |
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| Here, in his native city, Jianguo stood out as a country bumpkin. |
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| Despite his religious learning he came off as a sort of country bumpkin. |
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| The film, they decided, would follow an abandoned ten-year-old as he made his way through the choked Bombay slums, where he lived rough among beggars and drug addicts, progressing from bumpkin to street-savvy survivor. |
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