Road.

Gentlemen of the road or Knights of the road. Highwaymen. In the latter a double pun is implied. A first-class highwayman, like Robin Hood, is a “Colossus of Roads.”

King of Roads [Rhodes]. John London Macadam (1756–1836).

The law of the road—

“The law of the road is a paradox quite,

In riding or driving along;

If you go to the left you are sure to go right,

If you go to the right you go wrong.”

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.