Meaning of one-horse | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Drawn or worked by a single horse.
2. Small, insignificant.
   broadly

Examples

“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!”

“Come to the wagon business I may have a pole put in front of that one-horse wagon and hitch em both to it.”

“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.”

“The Great Powers never think of us as a one-horse state.”

“Going from its one-horse hotel, to the model hotel of Philadelphia, was almost too sudden a change even for my excellent constitution.”

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