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one-horse

  [wuhn-hawrs, -hohrs]
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–adjective
1. using or having only a single horse: a one-horse carriage.
2. small and unimportant; limited: a one-horse town.
Origin:
1740–50
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one-horse   (wŭn'hôrs')
adj.  

  1. Drawn by or using only one horse: a one-horse carriage.

  2. Very small or insignificant: a one-horse town.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

one-horse 
"small-scale, petty" 1853, Amer.Eng. colloquial, in ref. to towns so small they only had one horse.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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