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pons asinorum

NOUN
  1. a problem that severely tests the ability of an inexperienced person

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  • (if indeed the word can be applied to what is really a catalogue of the results of a transcendental intuition) of the essential difference between the reason and the understanding -- a distinction which Coleridge has himself elsewhere described as preeminently the _gradus ad philosophiam, _ and might well have called its _pons asinorum. English Men of Letters: Coleridge
  • “But an ox bridge,” Simon quipped, “can be no better that a pons asinorum.” Putting Fowler Back in Fowler’s « Anglican Samizdat
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