| 单词 | one-horse town |
| 释义 | > as lemmasone-horse town one-horse town n. originally U.S. a small or rural town; a town where nothing important or exciting happens. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > small town > unimportant small town mudhole1784 toytown1816 Podunk1840 one-horse town1855 tank town1906 jerkwater1912 Hicksville1921 bumfuck1972 1853 Debow's Rev. Sept. 241 The principal mining localities are..Whiskey Creek, One Horse Town, One Mule Town, Clear Creek, [etc.].] 1855 Knickerbocker 46 106 ‘In this “one-horse town”,’ writes a Mobile friend, ‘as our New-Orleans neighbors designate it, [etc.].’ 1881 R. G. White Eng. Without & Within xxii. 518 But it was disheartening to come upon Stratford..and to find it more like a new ‘one-horse’ town in ‘America’,..than any place that I had seen in England. 1933 P. Fleming Brazilian Adventure iii. x. 378 Doctor Amyntas was the big noise; in this one horse town he might be said to own the horse. 1977 Zigzag June 23/2 I've a new song..about a girl of sixteen trying to get out of a one horse town. 2000 Daily Tel. 12 Dec. 32/3 Every one-horse town has a local paper and several TV channels. < as lemmas |
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