Significados de one-hoss shay en inglés

Martha feared that they would go to pieces in one irremediable catastrophe, like the one-hoss shay.

I suppose you expected a one-hoss shay.

But they say he has not won a single aërial handicap since that American professor of yours harnessed him to a one-hoss shay.

The Huns may stand out a long while, but when the time comes they may collapse all at once like the deacon's ' one-hoss shay.'

We remember also that banking and business and farming are not falling apart like the one-hoss shay, as they did in the terrible winter of

So, too, did 'The One-Hoss Shay.'

Also for a comic piece nothing equal to "The Wonderful One-hoss Shay" has appeared since Burns's "Tam O'Shanter."

Our U. S. mail transport was our old topless One-Hoss Shay-repaired and repainted for the purpose-withthe brown team hitched to it.

"That old fellow," Martin said, looking keenly after him, "is going to go all to pieces some day like the one-hoss shay.