jerkwater town

A "great industrial center" often turns out to be a jerkwater town.

There's a little jerkwater town at the next crossroads where we turn."

"I'm a little jerkwater mayor in a jerkwater town.

If a monk in a jerkwater town like the one they were married in knew that much, imagine what the ones here knew and could do!

This gave rise to a 19th-century slang term "Jerkwater town" for towns too insignificant to have a regular train station.

Suppose . . . People in this jerkwater town had liked Bell.

This was known as "jerking water" and led to the term "jerkwater towns" (meaning a small town, a term which today is considered derisive).

If we can't keep control over this Cardassian tortoiseshell, we're just another semiautonomous jerkwater town with nothing to offer anybody at all.

Jerkwater towns like Nun's Lake didn't possess the police and forensics capabilities to detect murders this thoroughly concealed.

Jack Track, the marshal of a jerkwater town in deepest Texas, is the kind of nice, easygoing guy who gives nice, friendly names to animals.

There wasn't much to read apart from the fact that Trinavant was a big wheel in some jerkwater town in British Columbia.

The practice of drafting water in this way gave rise to the American expression, "Jerkwater Town," used generally to indicate a small town or out-of-the-way place.

She rides the rails west and lands a job with the Federal Theater Project in Bumfork, "a jerkwater town in a cornfield."

Railroaders, especially in Pennsylvania, also used the verb to coin jerkwater town, from the scooping of water from the track pan (a trough between the tracks) in a town too small for a train stop.

Besides, even if I wanted something permanent with someone, which I don't want, but even if for some weird reason I did, I wouldn't want anything permanent with anyone here in this jerkwater town.

In "The Body in Blackwater Bay," everyone in the jerkwater town of Blackwater Bay, Mich., pranced around in silly costumes for the Howl, a regional version of Halloween.