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Definition of horse-and-buggy in English: horse-and-buggyadjective North American informal attributive Old-fashioned. 〈北美〉过时的 horse-and-buggy technology 陈旧的技术。 Example sentencesExamples - Tony Abott's avowed commitment to our horse-and-buggy Constitution will increasingly complicate his bid to been seen as a plausible leader for the 21st century.
- Have these things - have these political gatherings become like horse-and-buggy conventions?
- In an era in which information and know-how are being dispersed and people are demanding a more direct say in decision making, the parliament looks like a horse-and-buggy institution.
- The only superficial traits that set the Amish apart from the ‘normals ‘are their thick horse-and-buggy accents and the fact that they all cop to having limited educations.’
- When you invent a railroad, you need railroad-rules for it, not horse-and-buggy rules.
- You know that even the Amish, in horse-and-buggy Pennsylvania, are secretly buying cell phones?
- Her ‘see, I told you so’ grin left me feeling like a chastised schoolgirl - or the last horse-and-buggy driver in town.
- DJ Moby, in a post on his Web site, nailed it: ‘Record companies suing 12-year-old girls for file sharing is kind of like horse-and-buggy operators suing Henry Ford.’
- If Sponer's list forces her to remain focused on profits, Nichols's twelve criteria served to remind him of just what he didn't want to get into back in the early 1990s, when he was looking to start a company: a horse-and-buggy operation.
Synonyms old-fashioned, outmoded, out of fashion, out of date, unfashionable, frumpish, frumpy, out of style, outdated, dated, out, outworn, old, former, dead, musty, old-time, old-world, behindhand, past, bygone, archaic, obsolescent, obsolete, ancient, antiquated, superannuated
Definition of horse-and-buggy in US English: horse-and-buggyadjectiveˌhɔrsənˈbəɡiˌhôrsənˈbəɡē North American informal attributive Old-fashioned. 〈北美〉过时的 horse-and-buggy technology 陈旧的技术。 Example sentencesExamples - Have these things - have these political gatherings become like horse-and-buggy conventions?
- The only superficial traits that set the Amish apart from the ‘normals ‘are their thick horse-and-buggy accents and the fact that they all cop to having limited educations.’
- Her ‘see, I told you so’ grin left me feeling like a chastised schoolgirl - or the last horse-and-buggy driver in town.
- If Sponer's list forces her to remain focused on profits, Nichols's twelve criteria served to remind him of just what he didn't want to get into back in the early 1990s, when he was looking to start a company: a horse-and-buggy operation.
- DJ Moby, in a post on his Web site, nailed it: ‘Record companies suing 12-year-old girls for file sharing is kind of like horse-and-buggy operators suing Henry Ford.’
- You know that even the Amish, in horse-and-buggy Pennsylvania, are secretly buying cell phones?
- Tony Abott's avowed commitment to our horse-and-buggy Constitution will increasingly complicate his bid to been seen as a plausible leader for the 21st century.
- In an era in which information and know-how are being dispersed and people are demanding a more direct say in decision making, the parliament looks like a horse-and-buggy institution.
- When you invent a railroad, you need railroad-rules for it, not horse-and-buggy rules.
Synonyms old-fashioned, outmoded, out of fashion, out of date, unfashionable, frumpish, frumpy, out of style, outdated, dated, out, outworn, old, former, dead, musty, old-time, old-world, behindhand, past, bygone, archaic, obsolescent, obsolete, ancient, antiquated, superannuated
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