one-horse town

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one-horse town

Fig. a very small town; a small and backward town. I refuse to spend a whole week in that one-horse town! I grew up in a one-horse town, and I liked it very much.

See also: town

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thinking up excuses to tell Hector sleepwalking through one-horse towns . The Constant Visitors by Schutt, Will / Harvard Review And what facts remain, captured on the thinning velcro of memory like so much tumbleweed blowing through a one-horse town, are practically unusable. Horse Racing: Recalling the past keeps us anoraks happy by The Racing Post (London, England) Big Stone Gap is a one-horse town in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, where the women talk about their apple butter buns, the men their flatbed trucks, and everyone is married (some more happily than others), apart from the narrator, 35-year-old Ave Maria Mulligan. Big Stone Gap by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk			one's heart is set against one's heart is set on one's heart misses a beat one's heart stands still one's home away from home one's John Henry one's mind went blank one's money's worth one's name is mud one's next of kin one's next-door neighbor one's nose is in the air one's number is up one's old stamping ground one's own worst enemy one's say one's sea legs one's second wind one's start one's sunset years one's walking papers one's way one's way of life one's word is bond one's work is cut out for one one-horse town one-man show one-night stand one-shot one-track mind one-upmanship oneself oneself again onions online only have eyes for only just only way to go onto onto a good thing onward onwards and upwards Onwards and upwards! ooze ooze with open open a can of worms open a conversation open a Pandora's box open and shut open book			One-Eyed Wolfdog one-face-centered lattice One-factor APT One-Factor Arbitrage Pricing Theory One-Factor-at-A-Time one-fifth one-flowered pyrola one-flowered wintergreen one-flowered wintergreen one-foot desktop one-foot desktop one-for-one one-for-one one-for-one one-fourth one-group model one-half one-hand one-handed One-handed manual alphabet one-hit theory one-hitter One-Hop Knowledge One-Hop Traffic-Maximization Scheme One-Horn Interferometer One-horned rhinoceros one-horse one-horse races one-horse town one-horse towns one-hour glucose challenge one-humped One-humped Camel One-humped Camel One-humped Camel one-hundred percent location one-hundred-millionth one-hundred-percent premium plan one-hundred-thousandth one-hundredth One-in-a-Million Chance of Death from an Environmental Hazard One-in-a-Thousand Society One-Key CBC Mac one-leafed cape tulip One-Leg Standing Balance Test One-Leg-Stand one-legged One-Legged Stance Test one-level address one-level code One-Level Dynamic Partitioning one-level subroutine one-line adapter One-line diagram One-line diagram One-Line Element Set

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