🐴 Horse
"One-trick pony"
Meaning
Someone or something good at only one thing.
About the horse
Horses have long been work and racing animals, so their idioms describe effort, priorities, and stubborn resistance.
Example sentence
The singer was no one-trick pony; she could dance too.
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Which idiom means...
Someone or something good at only one thing.
More horse idioms
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"Straight from the horse's mouth"
Information received directly from the person who knows the truth.
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"Dark horse"
A person who surprises everyone by doing very well.
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"Hold your horses"
Wait a moment; do not rush.
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"Eat like a horse"
To eat a lot.
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"A horse of a different color"
A completely different matter.
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"Flogging a dead horse"
Wasting effort on something that cannot succeed.