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one-horse

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one-horse (wnhôrs)
adj.
1. Drawn by or using only one horse: a one-horse carriage.
2. Very small or insignificant: a one-horse town.

one-horse
adj
1. drawn by or using one horse
2. (prenominal) Informal small or obscure a one-horse town
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.one-horse - small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater college"; "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns"
provincial - characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes"

one-horse
adjective (Informal) small (only used to describe towns) slow, quiet, minor, obscure, sleepy, unimportant, small-time (informal), backwoods, tinpot (Brit. informal) I don't want to live in a small, one-horse town all my life.
Translations
one-horse [ˈwʌnˈhɔːs] ADJ
1. [carriage] → de un solo caballo
2.insignificante, de poca monta
one-horse townpueblucho m
3. a one-horse race (fig) → una contienda en la que no hay color, un paseo triunfal
one-horse [ˈwʌnˌhɔːs] adj one-horse town (fam) → piccola città di provincia
one-horse [ˈwʌnˌhɔːs] adj one-horse town (fam) → piccola città di provincia


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Pa, he 'lowed he'd break up and go down and live with Uncle Ben, who's got a little one-horse place on the river, forty-four mile below Orleans.
It is said that a stranger took a one-horse carriage for a course-- tariff, half a franc.
We will start, if you please, in the railway--we will proceed in a one-horse chaise--and we will stop at a village, situated in a hole.
 
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