jerk-water

But we do need it at the Federal level, because these jerk-water States will refuse to budge without it ...

Get Out In the Streets And FIGHT for Universal, Single Payer Health Care 2009

I vote for an even playing field for players playing every one else's format and sound files, that I manage not some jerk-water streaming lawyer trying to pump up market share.

a Real Alternative? - Anil Dash 2004

He recalled shudderingly brother engineers whose wives dragged about with them, living on the edge of construction camps under canvas in summer, in rough-boarded, tar-papered shacks in the winter; or perhaps in half-furnished cottages in some nearby jerk-water town.

Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters 1916

You see, there was no market to amount to anything out here; and a few little jerk-water mills could supply the whole layout easy.

The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909

More statesmen gof off at that little jerk-water station than had ever been in the county before.

Tattlings of a Retired Politician 1904

An 'there wasn't any other way to do it in this jerk-water town, was there?

Anderson Crow, Detective George Barr McCutcheon 1897

Sometimes I have been, at a late hour on a stormy night, at a way-station on some "jerk-water" railroad, waiting for a belated train, with others in the same predicament.

The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 Leander Stillwell 1888

STOP trying to support every jerk-water country on this planet.

Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

Two-bit County Commish of a jerk-water county gets busted for fistcuffs at a low-life bar in a one-horse town.

The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register 2010

My personal feelings are, if you always conduct your business from that angle your going to miss many money making opportunities, because the idea that a set of dog offices, empty for three years, in a little jerk-water town somewhere, most of you have never even heard of, could turn into a

BiggerPockets Forums ShortSaleMaster 2010