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horse-and-buggy

ADJECTIVE
  1. relating to the time before automobiles (and other inventions) changed the way people lived in industrialized nations

How To Use horse-and-buggy In A Sentence

  • Now, in effect, it wants to dominate the horse-and-buggy business. Getco Takes Floor Against the Tide
  • 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.’
  • The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence, but we stiff creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter. Alona Elkayam: Icon of The Day: MLK
  • Some people continued to ride a horse-and-buggy after many other people switched to cars. Dave Astor: Confessions of an E-Book Virgin
  • The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward the goal of political independence, and we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward the gaining of a cup of coffee at a lunch counter. Civil Rights & Black Identity
  • Have these things - have these political gatherings become like horse-and-buggy conventions?
  • 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.
  • You know that even the Amish, in horse-and-buggy Pennsylvania, are secretly buying cell phones?
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