one-horse town
A very small town, especially one of a rural nature and offering very few or no attractions.
It's surrounded by beautiful wilderness, but otherwise it's just a one-horse town.
one-horse
adj 2
Collocations
4ADJ.
open
VERB + ONE-HORSE
constructed, ride
ONE-HORSE + NOUN
hitch, plough, sleigh, town, wagon
PREP.
in, up
Definitions
adj
1
Drawn or worked by a single horse.
He constructed a one-horse plough for me about two years ago, which only weighs 581b., for planting potatoes.
Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh!
2
Small, insignificant.
Let us have no one-horse candidate for the Presidency. General Grant is the man.
A Nestor may reappear as an elderly pedagogue, a Circe as the "Madam" of a one-horse brothel.
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one-horse race
A horse race in which a single horse takes such a considerable lead that the other horses are no longer contenders to win.
Since riding Harry Payne Whitney's Whiskery to victory in the Kentucky Derby, Jockey Linus ("Pony") McAtee has twice broken into the news in unconventional fashion. A fortnight ago
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He constructed a one-horse plough for me about two years ago, which only weighs 581b., for planting potatoes.
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Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh!
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Come to the wagon business I may have a pole put in front of that one-horse wagon and hitch em both to it.
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Tom grew up in a one-horse town.
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Tom grew up in a one-horse town and was overwhelmed when he moved to the big smoke.
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