one-horse a. 单马拉的, 只用一匹马的
one-horse[ adj ]
small and remote and insignificant
<adj.all>
a jerkwater collegepassed a series of poky little one-horse towns
one-horse \one"-horse`\, a.
1. Drawn by one horse; having but a single horse; as, a
one-horse carriage.
2. Second-rate; inferior; small; as, a one-horse town.
[Slang, U.S.]
[1913 Webster +PJC]
- The ultimate design, he says, would be like the famous one-horse shay, in which everything wore out at once.
- This month's Iranian presidential election appears a one-horse race dominated by Parliament Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani and if the Tehran media is anything to go by, the result is a foregone conclusion.
- It is his home-grown homily about the humblings of nature on man and beast, his tactful way of saying fly fishing is the Great Leveler _ it is merciless toward CEOs, yuppies, one-horse cowpokes, and grizzly bears alike.