in one's backyard

• in one's own backyard

in one's backyard

1. (informal) Local to the place where one lives or habitually spends time; (by extension) one's responsibility.
   • 2025 August 30, Leila Abboud, Ian Johnston, Adrienne Klasa, “France's isolated PM puts his job on the line”, in FT Weekend, page 7:

     His [François Bayrou's] tenure has also been marred by allegations that he ignored a decades-long sexual abuse scandal in his backyard at the Bétharram Catholic school in Pau.

• “in your backyard”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “in your own backyard” (US) / “in your own backyard” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “in somebody s own backyard” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.