ass : Idioms & Phrases


Asses' Bridge

  • . L. pons asinorum. The fifth proposition of the first book of Euclid, "The angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal to one another." Sportive "A schoolboy, stammering out his Asses' Bridge." F. Harrison.
Webster 1913

To make an ass of one's self

  • to do or say something very foolish or absurd.
Webster 1913