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One-horse town

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Noun
  1. 1
    A very small town, especially one of a rural nature and offering very few or no attractions. US, idiomatic

    "It's surrounded by beautiful wilderness, but otherwise it's just a one-horse town."

Etymology

The term “one-horse” originated as an agricultural phrase, meaning to be drawn or worked by a single horse. This led to the use of this phrase in a metaphorical sense as something that is small or insignificant. Charles Dickens explained in his publication All the Year Round (1871): ‘One horse’ is an agricultural phrase, applied to anything small or insignificant, or to any inconsiderable or contemptible person: as a ‘one-horse town,’ a ‘one-horse bank,’ a ‘one-horse hotel,’ a ‘one-horse lawyer’, etc.

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