Meaning of one-horse lawyer | Babel Free

Definitions

A lawyer who has only worked in a small town, lacking the experience and sophistication of more prominent lawyers.

Examples

“The two chatted about several matters, and then the visitor commented, "Mr. Lincoln, if anybody had told me that in a general crisis like this the people were going out to a little one-horse town to pick out a one-horse lawyer for President, I wouldn't have believed it."”

“I was a one horse lawyer in this one horse town.”

“Then Warren picked up a one-horse lawyer down in his own town and he and that lawyer went to St. Paul where Warren made another speech, which—of course—from a lawyer's standpoint was wholly irrelevant and insulting.”

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