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one-trick pony

British  

noun

  1. informal a person or thing considered as being limited to only one single talent, capability, quality, etc

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

Far from a one-trick pony, the Detroit-born talent has scored his own bright and bouncy house hits and has worked with and remixed pop’s biggest names.

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2022

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

"Hopefully it will still encourage people to come back and it's not just a one-trick pony."

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2021

And I was pretty much a one-trick pony.

From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli

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