horse-and-buggy
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- adjective
- /ˈhɔrs ənd ˈbʌɡi/
- As I soon learned, Election Day Tuesday is a relic of the 19th century, when people (men) needed time to travel by horse and buggy to the polls without missing any of the three days of worship.
- horse-and-buggy era
- horse-and-buggy days
Examples
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To the best of my knowledge, revolvers are no longer authorized in the FBI, and I expect the new breed of young, computer-savvy, casual-dress-on-Friday special agents would look on them as horse-and-buggy stuff.
Blog text (30) -
This was stuff that was built out and fleshed out in the age of horse and buggy and in the age of trains.
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The typewriter will go the way of the horse and buggy.
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"Yeah, well, if you and I were still stuck in a horse and buggy, we'd still be here too."
Fiction book (1996) -
The Amish there could still be in the horse-and-buggy days.
Fiction book (1995) -
Because now you're talking about intelligence systems that are just, I mean, this is no longer just going from horse and buggy to to the car.
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You pull on that to close the door almost gives you feelings of like a carriage door from the horse and buggy days, such as it was in the Roadmaster.
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When she was a youngster, which somehow seems closer all the time instead of farther away, the only way to go anywhere was by horse and buggy. Heaven was the half-day trip to the county seat for the Fourth of July, and all the glory was yet to come: the automobiles and paved roads, radio and television, the great airships, trips into space.
Fiction book (1996) -
Living in a horse-and-buggy society means relying on old-fashioned methods rather than modern technology.
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Many people long for the simpler life of the horse-and-buggy era, away from the noise of the city.
Antonyms
How Old-Fashioned
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Horse-and-buggy comes from the picture of a horse pulling a small cart called a buggy, which people used 'before cars'. So, calling something 'horse-and-buggy' means it is old-fashioned or from an earlier time.