sleep under the same bridge

短语

词形变化

sleeps under the same bridge 三单 sleeping under the same bridge 现在分词 slept under the same bridge 过去式 slept under the same bridge 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To be formally, but not actually, equal under the law, due to circumstances being ignored.

词源

An allusion to “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under the bridge, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread”, a translation from the French "La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain", Le Lys rouge, The Red Lily, 1894.

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