horse-and-buggy

horse-and-buggy
/hawrs"euhn bug"ee/, adj.
1. of or pertaining to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
2. old-fashioned; outmoded: horse-and-buggy methods.
[1925-30, Amer.]

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