(The), subs. phr. (common).—The fifth proposition in the First Book of Euclid’s Elements; the pons asinorum.
c. 1780. Epigram. If this be rightly called the BRIDGE OF ASSES, He’s not the fool that sticks, but he that passes.
1860. All the Year Round, 560. He never crossed THE ASS’S BRIDGE.
