One-horse (Adjective)
Meaning
Small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater college"; "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The small town had a one-horse economy that relied heavily on a single factory.
- She attended a one-horse college that offered only a handful of majors.
- The movie was set in a one-horse town where everyone knew each other's business.
- The family drove through a series of one-horse towns on their way to the beach.
- The one-horse airport was little more than a strip of asphalt in the middle of nowhere.