Synonyms for one-horse town


Grammar : Noun


Définition of one-horse town

  • noun very small town
Example sentences :
  • I thank my stars I am clean out of that one-horse town Albany!
  • Extract from : « The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) » by Harry Furniss
  • You see, Mr. Lincoln was still but "the one-horse lawyer of a one-horse town."
  • Extract from : « The Lincoln Story Book » by Henry L. Williams
  • It is, altogether, a one-horse town, although some business in the way of shipping produce has been carried on here.
  • Extract from : « The History of the Fifty-ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteers » by David Lathrop
  • I was born and raised in a one-horse town upstate; and, even though I ain't been back for twenty years, I know what it's like.
  • Extract from : « Abe and Mawruss » by Montague Glass
  • Many would class it as a “one-horse town,” but to us it appeared a little paradise.
  • Extract from : « The Last Campaign of the Twenty-Second Regiment, N.G., S.N.Y. June and July, 1863 » by George W. Wingate
  • There isn't a single man in this one-horse town that's good enough to pick up her glove.
  • Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson

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