one-horse lawyer
nounEtymology
From the agricultural phrase one-horse meaning 'to be drawn/worked by a single horse.' This led to "one-horse" being expanded to mean anything small or contemptible.
Definitions
A lawyer who has only worked in a small town, lacking the experience and sophistication…
A lawyer who has only worked in a small town, lacking the experience and sophistication of more prominent lawyers.
- I was a one horse lawyer in this one horse town.
- Then Warren picked up a one-horse lawyer down in his own town and he and that lawyer went to St. Paul where Warren made another speech, which—of course—from a lawyer's standpoint was wholly irrelevant and insulting.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA