royal road
or Royal Road
an auspicious or easy way or means to achieve something: the royal road to success.
a highway in ancient Persia, 1,677 miles (2,700 km) long, extending from Susa in W Iran to W Asia Minor.
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How to use royal road in a sentence
Larry, it looks like traveling up the royal road you slashed through the forest of penury.
In Paris, Joachim soon found that the royal road to success lay in denouncing loudly all superior officers of lack of patriotism.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonBernard's farm is cut across by the Port royal road, the old road to Richmond, and by the railroad.
The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.The Port royal road is bordered by cedars, thick-set hedges, and a deep ditch.
The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.There was no royal road, she discovered, to the happiness of others any more than to her own.
Mary Gray | Katharine Tynan
The well-kept royal road ran through fields of good black, arable land, planted with trees of many different kinds.
An Egyptian Princess, Complete | Georg Ebers
British Dictionary definitions for royal road
an easy or direct way of achieving a desired end: the royal road to success
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