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one-horse lawyers

one-horse lawyers is the plural of one-horse lawyer.

Meaning of one-horse lawyer

Noun

one-horse lawyer (plural one-horse lawyers)

  1. A lawyer who has only worked in a small town, lacking the experience and sophistication of more prominent lawyers.
    • The two chatted about several matters, and then the visitor commented, "Mr. Lincoln, if anybody had told me that in a general crisis like this the people were going out to a little one-horse town to pick out a one-horse lawyer for President, I wouldn't have believed it."1998, Gene Griessman, B. Eugene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln, The Words Lincoln Lived By, page 53

Questions about one-horse lawyers

What is one-horse lawyers the plural of?
One-horse lawyers is the plural of one-horse lawyer.

Words near one-horse lawyers in the dictionary

  1. one-hitting
  2. one-holer
  3. one-holers
  4. one-horse
  5. one-horse lawyer
  6. one-horse lawyers
  7. one-horse race
  8. one-horse races
  9. one-horse town
  10. one-horse towns
  11. one-hot

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