English Explanatory Dictionary

sleep under the same bridge

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

sleep under the same bridge sleeps under the same bridge sleeping under the same bridge slept under the same bridge

Etymology

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.

Related words

justice is blind
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