What does one-horse mean?
One-horse means Drawn or worked by a single horse..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Drawn or worked by a single horse..
He constructed a one-horse plough for me about two years ago, which only weighs 581b., for planting potatoes.
Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh!
Come to the wagon business I may have a pole put in front of that one-horse wagon and hitch em both to it.
Let us have no one-horse candidate for the Presidency. General Grant is the man.
A Nestor may reappear as an elderly pedagogue, a Circe as the "Madam" of a one-horse brothel.
The Great Powers never think of us as a one-horse state.
Going from its one-horse hotel, to the model hotel of Philadelphia, was almost too sudden a change even for my excellent constitution.
Use one-horse when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
One-horse means Drawn or worked by a single horse..
Common synonyms include provincial, pokey, poky, jerkwater.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He constructed a one-horse plough for me about two years ago, which only weighs 581b., for planting potatoes.
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