| 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. |
| And while Hong Kong people once disdained Chinese visitors as poor country cousins, the touring mainlanders hardly fit the bumpkin stereotype. |
| 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. |
| Even the conductress will occasionally offer a helping hand to an overburdened bumpkin. |
| 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. |
| Heck, her country bumpkin ballad Let Her Go is as cruisy and bluesy as they come. |
