Sentence: It is the unhappy blunder of a man and a boy being left to pull together as unsympathetically as an elephant and an ass, that has impeded the progress of so many of our public works and it was, unquestionably, the trial of the man and boy system at Calais during the winter months, that, in the early part of 1558, caused the loss of the city.
Combination: an elephant and an ass (root: elephant, modifier: ass)
Property: ill
Property type: emergent