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View synonyms for one-horse town

one-horse town



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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.

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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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