one-horse town

短语

（非正式）简陋的小镇

发音

AU

词形变化

one-horse towns 复数 one-horse towns

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A very small town, especially one of a rural nature and offering very few or no attractions.

    美国 习语

    It's surrounded by beautiful wilderness, but otherwise it's just a one-horse town.

词源

The term “one-horse” originated as an agricultural phrase, meaning to be drawn or worked by a single horse. This led to the use of this phrase in a metaphorical sense as something that is small or insignificant. Charles Dickens explained in his publication All the Year Round (1871): ‘One horse’ is an agricultural phrase, applied to anything small or insignificant, or to any inconsiderable or contemptible person: as a ‘one-horse town,’ a ‘one-horse bank,’ a ‘one-horse hotel,’ a ‘one-horse lawyer’, etc.

来源：wiktionary