one-trick pony
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"You don't want to be a one-trick pony, certainly if you want to be successful."
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
The vegetable, regarded as a fruit just as tomatoes are fruits commonly regarded as vegetables, isn’t a one-trick pony, either.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
“Missing” is still a one-trick pony, but its disembodied narrative is probably here to stay.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 18, 2023
It’s good that this film clocks in at 70 minutes, since there’s no getting around that this grisly meet-cute marriage of Brian De Palma pastiche and “The Human Centipede” is a one-trick pony.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2022
And I was pretty much a one-trick pony.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
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