horse-and-buggy

• “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.”

  The Huffington Post: Alona Elkayam: Icon of The Day: MLK

• “In 1933, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office, much of the country was making do with Victorian bridges, horse-and-buggy roads, and improvised sanitation.”

  The Huffington Post: Job Creation Idea No. 8: Time For A New WPA

• “Which is a similar concern the horse-and-buggy industry had when cars were invented.”

  Health Care for America NOW! (Blog for Democracy)

• “Now, in effect, it wants to dominate the horse-and-buggy business.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Getco Takes Floor Against the Tide

• “Some people continued to ride a horse-and-buggy after many other people switched to cars.”

  The Huffington Post: Dave Astor: Confessions of an E-Book Virgin

• “Of course, those were still horse-and-buggy days, with tech's promise still largely in the future.”

  The Huffington Post: William Bradley: Steve Jobs: Hardly a Perfect Person, Perhaps a Perfect Icon

• “The postal service argues that its network of some 32,000 brick-and-mortar post offices, many built in the horse-and-buggy days, is outmoded in an era when people are more mobile, often pay bills online and text or email rather than put pen to paper.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Postal Service Eyes Closing Thousands of Post Offices

• “If he really wanted a pessimistic outlook, he could have interviewed horse-and-buggy makers.”

  Growth and Displacement, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “Today's conservative evangelical Christians who are rallying against "postmodern relativism," "revisionist secular theology," "a naturalistic doctrine of God," or however else they might label the theology of the left, are like yesterday's horse-and-buggy owners rallying against the newfangled automobile.”

  The Huffington Post: John Shore: The Inevitability Of The Rise Of Progressive Christianity

• “Her "see, I told you so" grin left me feeling like a chastised schoolgirl -- or the last horse-and-buggy driver in town.”

  The Huffington Post: Arianna Huffington: Arianna's Grammar Pet Peeve: The Apostrophe Crisis

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