royal road
See also: Royal Road
English
editEtymology
editIn reference to Euclid, who is said to have told a king that there was no royal road to geometry.
Noun
editroyal road (plural royal roads)
- An easy or straightforward procedure for achieving a goal; a procedure that requires little effort.
- 1942 May-June, T. F. Cameron, “An Outline of Railway Traffic Operation”, in Railway Magazine, page 138:
- There is no royal road to success in transport work.
Translations
editeasy way
Further reading
edit- “royal road”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “royal road” in Idioms and phrases, TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
- “royal road to”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.