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Definition of one-horse in English: one-horseadjective Drawn by or using a single horse. Example sentencesExamples - In those postwar years, vehicles evolved from plantation wagons drawn by oxen or mules to what Ball called ‘Northern horse wagons,’ then to one-horse and two-horse buggies.
- Grandma Abbey needed a doctor again, and after an anxious wait, he arrived, hitched his one-horse shay to the front-yard post and entered the house where he put his travel-worn black bag on the kitchen table.
- Racing Hall of Fame jockey Eddie D, injured Friday in a one-horse spill at Del Mar, will be out of action for the remainder of the Del Mar meeting.
- With the royal stables under siege near the Château d' Eau, the royal family escaped the Tuileries in three one-horse carriages.
- In 1848 American Agriculturist praised new wagons light enough to be pulled by only two horses. By the 1860s one-horse wagons were available.
- The 40-year-old conditioner started training in 1991 with a one-horse stable.
- One pair of heavy draught animals with a heavy truck could pull as much as four one-horse drays.
- So it was done and they were on their way back to the little cottage in the one-horse cart.
- It looks like a lovely one-horse open ice sleigh, dashing through the snow.
- A one-horse cart could carry much more than a packhorse but travelled more slowly.
- Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh!
- The brougham, a one-horse closed carriage, with two or four wheels, is named after him.
- Suddenly a one-horse sleigh came running toward Mitsuko and Hideo.
- These required only a man and a horse to operate, but brought about an overall increase in the amount of rolling stock. By 1890 nearly half of the Metropolitan Street Railway's cars were one-horse open cars, suitable only for summer.
- On the inside, it looked as if the shed was used for a one-horse pen.
- Four hundredweight in a one-horse cart was low in comparison with the weights carried by scheduled carriers but it is a plausible average to use for traffic on the rural roads of Cheshire.
Synonyms uneventful, uninteresting, unexciting, uninspiring, dull, boring, flat, quiet, sleepy, slow, stale, humdrum, tame, pedestrian, lacklustre, lifeless
Phrases A contest in which one candidate or competitor is clearly superior to all the others and seems certain to win. Example sentencesExamples - Maybe last season, with a one-horse race at the top and bottom marked the nadir.
- When it comes to delicious treats at Royal Ascot, this North Yorkshire company has made it a one-horse race.
- This time round it looks like being a one-horse race - even taking into consideration Mandelson's actions and any subsequent damage to the party.
- The SPL has been a one-horse race for the past two seasons.
- The 1975 contest was a one-horse race - this time in the sense that Captain Christy led from start to finish and ended up an emphatic 30-length winner.
- From a neutral perspective, I just hope it is a season of uncertainty and unpredictability, not a one-horse race.
- There was no need for a similar betting frenzy that was going on down the road at Aintree a day earlier - this was a one-horse race from the off.
- Now it is widely assumed that this recent development changes everything, that the East is suddenly a one-horse race, and that the Heat - Zo and behold - has become the favorite to make it to June.
- In many eyes, this year's Best Actress Oscar contest is a one-horse race.
- ‘Of course the polls were also telling us it was a one-horse race, and have been telling young people that throughout their teenage years,’ Curtice said.
- In this region that means Bradford and it's a one-horse race.
- But I think even I could confidently predict the next winners of the Premiership because Arsenal have managed to turn it into a one-horse race.
- So I think those people who are dissatisfied, that kind of mood really needs to fester for a long time before that kind of movement will emerge, or if there's a merger between some of the existing parties, but really it's a one-horse race.
- A spokesman for the Friends of York Archives said: ‘We have always said this should not be a one-horse race.’
- Rotorua voters have given a strong - and very public - hint that they are more interested in party policy than the one-horse candidacy race predicted for the electorate.
- Frankly, the debate about whether the weather or market reports should come at the end of Newsnight has been far more gripping than this one-horse race and, you know, I blame the lack of visual stimulus that our politicians provide.
- One Deutsche shareholder said: ‘I don't buy into this argument that it will descend to a one-horse race.
- In the run home, it was a one-horse affair with The Rat scoring by five and a quarter lengths.
- He proved he did, but the nine straight titles Rangers garnered under his chairmanship owed much to the fact that the Scottish championship was, at this stage, a one-horse race with Celtic lurching towards bankruptcy.
- These one-horse races are not big at the box-office.
informal A small town with few and poor facilities. Example sentencesExamples - All the rest of the time it was a sex free zone, very hard work, flying through the night and staying in motels in one-horse towns.
- In a rural French one-horse town, at a counter where aspirin is served instead of alcohol, two men, as one might say, both alike in dignity and each of a certain age, strike up what seems an unlikely acquaintance.
- All kinds of breeders, riders, grooms and horse-lovers have descended on the RDS Showgrounds for the annual pilgrimage to prove that Dublin is far from being a one-horse town.
- A one-horse town - Liberty's is built into the hillside above the beach.
- America's mid west conjures up a lot of cliches: dirt roads, one-horse towns, tumbleweeds, pubs with swinging saloon-style doors, kids going to school barefoot, and farmers still using oxes to plough their fields.
- Now there are only two equipment companies - if I don't follow their orders, I'll be out of business faster than a blacksmith in a one-horse town.
- The Hick-Ups sing songs about one-horse towns, rodeo clowns and girls with holes in their stockings.
- In a one-horse town so small that it doesn't even have a horse - or a name - a collection of friendly talking animals live out their days skipping rope and playing by the watering hole.
- Hope it's all been a blast - I imagine you'll be travelling around the place by now, so maybe you'll be picking this up at some tiny Internet cafe in a tin shack in some obscure one-horse town in the depths of the Andes.
- Overjoyed, I pulled up at a single pump in a one-horse town.
- A one-horse town, 40 km north of Bangalore, Devanahalli is the answer to the software city's lateral expansion plans.
- We're locked in with the likes of Longford, a one-horse town, the capital of country and western.
- Got driven in a brand-new Mitsubishi Pajero out to the one-horse town of Gundaroo, where I lunched at the Cork St Cafe, and consumed one of their awesome, award-winning pizzas.
- Right from the moment the opening credits appear and a camera pans over an outlined street plan of the eponymous one-horse town, its intention to do something different is clear.
- Now, for years the one-horse town of Glenrowan has gamely exploited its links with Ned Kelly to keep itself viable.
- He was a dedicated man to his job and helped in no small way to put the one-horse town of Milltown on the map.
- Sadly, I not only originate from the same one-horse town as Glen, but also used to live on the same street.
- Many a one-horse town still has one horse, but more often than not, no light.
- In the one-horse town of Ceduna in South Australia, a touring funfair turns up at the height of summer.
- Of course, if you're like me, you will probably just stay in town and count down the days to one of the best shows ever to hit this one-horse town - Spinal Tap!
Definition of one-horse in US English: one-horseadjectiveˈwənˌhɔrsˈwənˌhôrs 1Drawn by or using a single horse. Example sentencesExamples - Racing Hall of Fame jockey Eddie D, injured Friday in a one-horse spill at Del Mar, will be out of action for the remainder of the Del Mar meeting.
- One pair of heavy draught animals with a heavy truck could pull as much as four one-horse drays.
- With the royal stables under siege near the Château d' Eau, the royal family escaped the Tuileries in three one-horse carriages.
- On the inside, it looked as if the shed was used for a one-horse pen.
- Suddenly a one-horse sleigh came running toward Mitsuko and Hideo.
- So it was done and they were on their way back to the little cottage in the one-horse cart.
- Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh!
- In those postwar years, vehicles evolved from plantation wagons drawn by oxen or mules to what Ball called ‘Northern horse wagons,’ then to one-horse and two-horse buggies.
- Four hundredweight in a one-horse cart was low in comparison with the weights carried by scheduled carriers but it is a plausible average to use for traffic on the rural roads of Cheshire.
- In 1848 American Agriculturist praised new wagons light enough to be pulled by only two horses. By the 1860s one-horse wagons were available.
- These required only a man and a horse to operate, but brought about an overall increase in the amount of rolling stock. By 1890 nearly half of the Metropolitan Street Railway's cars were one-horse open cars, suitable only for summer.
- It looks like a lovely one-horse open ice sleigh, dashing through the snow.
- The 40-year-old conditioner started training in 1991 with a one-horse stable.
- Grandma Abbey needed a doctor again, and after an anxious wait, he arrived, hitched his one-horse shay to the front-yard post and entered the house where he put his travel-worn black bag on the kitchen table.
- A one-horse cart could carry much more than a packhorse but travelled more slowly.
- The brougham, a one-horse closed carriage, with two or four wheels, is named after him.
Synonyms uneventful, uninteresting, unexciting, uninspiring, dull, boring, flat, quiet, sleepy, slow, stale, humdrum, tame, pedestrian, lacklustre, lifeless - 1.1informal Small and insignificant.
Example sentencesExamples - In this one-horse tech town dominated by MIT, it's fun to think what this might mean.
- Much better surrounding hill towns like Ramatuelle, or the one-horse village of La Mole near my bed and breakfast.
- A person from a one-horse village would be as ill-prepared.
- Behmhusen is somewhat less than a one-horse village, so I was immediately packed off to Lüneburg to finish school with my cousins.
- Hopper is your standard closet intellectual, the kind of guy who could make something of himself if he could only get out of his one-horse hometown.
Phrases A contest in which one candidate or competitor is clearly superior to all the others and seems certain to win. Example sentencesExamples - Now it is widely assumed that this recent development changes everything, that the East is suddenly a one-horse race, and that the Heat - Zo and behold - has become the favorite to make it to June.
- Rotorua voters have given a strong - and very public - hint that they are more interested in party policy than the one-horse candidacy race predicted for the electorate.
- He proved he did, but the nine straight titles Rangers garnered under his chairmanship owed much to the fact that the Scottish championship was, at this stage, a one-horse race with Celtic lurching towards bankruptcy.
- From a neutral perspective, I just hope it is a season of uncertainty and unpredictability, not a one-horse race.
- A spokesman for the Friends of York Archives said: ‘We have always said this should not be a one-horse race.’
- When it comes to delicious treats at Royal Ascot, this North Yorkshire company has made it a one-horse race.
- In many eyes, this year's Best Actress Oscar contest is a one-horse race.
- So I think those people who are dissatisfied, that kind of mood really needs to fester for a long time before that kind of movement will emerge, or if there's a merger between some of the existing parties, but really it's a one-horse race.
- ‘Of course the polls were also telling us it was a one-horse race, and have been telling young people that throughout their teenage years,’ Curtice said.
- The 1975 contest was a one-horse race - this time in the sense that Captain Christy led from start to finish and ended up an emphatic 30-length winner.
- One Deutsche shareholder said: ‘I don't buy into this argument that it will descend to a one-horse race.
- This time round it looks like being a one-horse race - even taking into consideration Mandelson's actions and any subsequent damage to the party.
- Maybe last season, with a one-horse race at the top and bottom marked the nadir.
- In this region that means Bradford and it's a one-horse race.
- There was no need for a similar betting frenzy that was going on down the road at Aintree a day earlier - this was a one-horse race from the off.
- The SPL has been a one-horse race for the past two seasons.
- In the run home, it was a one-horse affair with The Rat scoring by five and a quarter lengths.
- But I think even I could confidently predict the next winners of the Premiership because Arsenal have managed to turn it into a one-horse race.
- Frankly, the debate about whether the weather or market reports should come at the end of Newsnight has been far more gripping than this one-horse race and, you know, I blame the lack of visual stimulus that our politicians provide.
- These one-horse races are not big at the box-office.
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