A small town with limited facilities, a backward town, obscure town
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- In the middle of the 19th century, there were some towns which had no or one horses for transportation in America. In those towns, nothing exaggerated happened as the resources were limited. This expression referred to these regions and then was expanded to mean any project that is minor or has limited resources.
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Submitted on February 25, 2019
Additional definitions for 'One-Horse Town':
| one-horse town | A very small town. |
| one-horse town | A very small town, especially one of a rural nature and/or offering very few or no attractions. |
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