There is nothing to do in this one-horse town.
one-horse town
idiomA very small town, especially one of a rural nature and offering very few or no attractions.
Origin
first recorded 19th c.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.
He grew up in a quiet one-horse town where everyone knew his family and there were no movie theaters.
The traveler felt trapped in the desolate one-horse town, which offered little more than a dusty road and a single, silent general store.
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