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one-horse town
Idioms and Phrases
A small and unimportant place, as in Ours was just a one-horse town until the nuclear plant was built . This expression, first recorded in 1857, presumably alluded to a town so small that a single horse would suffice for its transportation needs.Example Sentences
You see, Mr. Lincoln was still but "the one-horse lawyer of a one-horse town."
When I met him, it was in a beastly one-horse town where I was stranded.
Many would class it as a “one-horse town,” but to us it appeared a little paradise.
We knew they were greenies from a little one-horse town called Sanford.
Ah, it was a great loss—a, powerful loss to this poor little one-horse town.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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