allusion english

white elephant

-rarity, not vulnerablee to beasts of burden and toil

-king siam Ithailand)

→ give white elephants to those he hated

→ rlly costly burden

→ brought to financial ruin

-no use/financial burden/inconvience

deus ex machina

-historical

“god from the mechanic”

-in classical theater

= mechanic

= crane that could let fly and do stuff as harness for actor

→ appear as to save heroine

-superising turn of events

→ suddenly make things alright

-usu unsatisfying or convient

catch 22

-novel by Joseph heller

-followed by an armed forces in ww2

→ airman can only deny flight duty if insane

→ by dy denying dangerous missons

= sane

-absurd, no win situnation

skeleton in the ccloset

-skeleton

= scary, foreboding, unpleasant

-embrassing, prefer to keep hidden from another

15 minutes of fame

-andy warhol

=American artist who make pop art

→ regrading media coverage

“everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes”

-recieve a greatt deal of media attention for something small/trivial

let the cat out of the bag/buy a pig in a poke

-medevial

= piglets brought to markets called poke

→ cats put instead

→ come out

→ secret revealed

-buying something unseen

→ unwise because of risk

narcissus/narcissim

-greek myth

-extraodinary beauty

-bent to drink from a pool

→ sees reflection

→ so obessed x move

→ die

-obsessive focus on oneslf

-usu about physical appearance

-can also be about skills

NIMBY

not in my backyard

-aware of unpleasant relatiles

→ e.x prision, landfills

→ but don’t want them near them

-located away

read the riot act

-english common law

→ crowd read the riot act before actions will be taken

-stern warning or else serve consequences will follow

(consequences may or may not follow)

noble savage - west philo

-roessau

= good and innocent

=influence from civilizan

→ person

= x corrupted by society/civilization

cassandra

greek myth

=daughter of trojan king

=loved by apollo

→ gave gift of prophency

( see future)

→ when she pisses Apollo

→ make nobody believe her

-someone whose predictions of disaster/neg result

→ disregarded

30 pieces of silver

-betrayed w/a kiss

= biblical

-judas (disciple)

= agree to betray jesus to the authorties

→ pay 30 pieces of silver

-when had 2 identify jesus

→ greeted w/a kiss of identifcation

-payment received for an act of trachery

(usu a friends supposed trenchery)

non sequitur

-latin

= it does not follower

→ unrelated to what has been said

→ in logic

= conclusion that does not logically follow/flow from start

→ line of reasoning x there

→ break in logic

e.x politics → omg I got a cat

lots wife/pillar of salt

-book of genesis

→ god destory cities of sodem and gomorahh

→ lot given chance to escape

→ told family 2 x look back

→ wife looked back

→ turned to salt

= unwisely

-disobey explicit rule/command

emperors new clothes

-han Christian anerson

→ hires 2 tailors who promise 2 make clothes invisible 2 stupid

= swindlers

-gives them 2

→ pretends to admire and fear ppl will see as stupid

→ grand pared

= no one 1 will admit they cant see the clothes

→ small child shouts out

-pointing out falseness/pretentious of something

sword of damocles

-damocles

= courtier of Greek king

= flattered king, said king lead great privili live

→ seated in kings own chair under a sword suspended from a ceiling under a single theard

= impending danger

-awareness of impending or immient danger

golden calf

-book of exodusomices

→ mt sinai

= 10 commandments

→ god told 2 make calf of gold

→ worshipped

→ Moses anger because its an idol

→ breaks the stone tablets

-idol or objected worshipped even tho x worthy

waterloo

-battle of waterloo

=final battle in Napoleonic wars

→ nep finally defeeated

-suffer an ultimate defeat*

-historical