"one-horse lawyer" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From the agricultural phrase one-horse meaning 'to be drawn/worked by a single horse.' This led to \"one-horse\" being expanded to mean anything small or contemptible.",
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          "ref": "1998, Gene Griessman, B. Eugene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln, The Words Lincoln Lived By, page 53",
          "text": "The two chatted about several matters, and then the visitor commented, \"Mr. Lincoln, if anybody had told me that in a general crisis like this the people were going out to a little one-horse town to pick out a one-horse lawyer for President, I wouldn't have believed it.\"",
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          "ref": "2007, Bert S. Lang, A Divine Sneeze, page 89",
          "text": "I was a one horse lawyer in this one horse town.",
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          "ref": "2013, Clarence Darrow, Randall Tietjen, In the Clutches of the Law: Clarence Darrow's Letters, page 153",
          "text": "Then Warren picked up a one-horse lawyer down in his own town and he and that lawyer went to St. Paul where Warren made another speech, which—of course—from a lawyer's standpoint was wholly irrelevant and insulting.",
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        "A lawyer who has only worked in a small town, lacking the experience and sophistication of more prominent lawyers."
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  "word": "one-horse lawyer"
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