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one-horse town

n. (context US idiomatic English) A very small town.

Usage examples of "one-horse town".

One morning, when we was pretty well down the State of Arkansaw, we come in sight of a little one-horse town in a big bend.

If they do manage to decipher them better than we can in this one-horse town, they’.

Were we crazy, burying ourselves in a one-horse town, where it was necessary to drive way out to the turnpike to find a shopping center or to see a movie, where people still believed that what was good enough for their fathers was good enough for them?

I was going to be Doctor Kristen Marlena Linder by the time I was thirty, show my family and everyone in this one-horse town that I had what it took to be something other than the little girl that sang in church and at the county fair, and everyone said, 'Doesn't she sound good?

Between the Imperial Post and every other one-horse town boasting a printing press, there had been a lot of places on the route that had received his reports from Grantville and Magdeburg.

He had gone into the only bar in the one-horse town to check out the locals, but….

There isn't a single man in this one-horse town that's good enough to pick up her glove.