Pronounced: sen-TEN(T)-shuhs, adj
Notes: I had the spelling and the meaning incorrect
Yesterday’s phrase
The phrase royal road is “an easy way to achieve something”
First usage
Our phrase came into English in the late 1700s
Background / Comments
This is a neat phrase that I would love to drop into conversations as the need arises. There was an actual Royal Road (a highway) in ancient Persia. There are references in the Bible to paths called “The King’s Highway”, which I assume is similar. However, our phrase traces back to a story about Euclid told by the philosopher Proclus. King Ptolemy had asked for an easy way to learn geometry, and Euclid responded that there is no royal road to geometry.
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