ALLUSIONS

Question 1

Achille’s Heel

Answer 1

a person’a area of particular vulnerability

Question 2

Pound of Flesh

Answer 2

someone’s insistence on being repaid even if the repayment will destroy or harm the debtor

Question 3

Sacred Cow

Answer 3

something that cannot be interfered with or harmed in any way- even if not interfering could be seen as harmful in some way

Question 4

Crossing the Rubicon

Answer 4

to take an irreversible step, often involving some danger

Question 5

Pearls Before Swine

Answer 5

Offer something precious to someone, or a group of people, unable to appreciate the value of what they are being given.

Question 6

Once in a Blue Moon

Answer 6

something that occurs very rarely

Question 7

Mrs. Grundy

Answer 7

A narrow minded, conventional, prudish person. An attitude of narrow- minded prudishness

Question 8

Crocodile Tears

Answer 8

a cold-blooded reptile has no real feelings or sympathy for its prey. to show false sympathy for someone.

Question 9

sirens

Answer 9

anything that tempts a person away from safety and toward a destructive path

Question 10

Read the Riot Act

Answer 10

to issue a stern warning that if unacceptable behavior does not cease, severe consequences will follow

Question 11

Thirty Pieces of Silver/Betrayed with a Kiss

Answer 11

a supposed friend’s treachery (betrayed with a kiss)

Question 12

Gordian Knot

Answer 12

any extremely complex problem solving such a problem in a quick decisive manner

Question 13

All That Glitters is not Gold

Answer 13

just because something looks like gold, one should not assume that it is actually gold. appears valuable on the outside, appearance ca be deceptive.

Question 14

Ivory Tower

Answer 14

come to have negative connotations of being out of touch with reality. secluded or protected from the real world out of touch w/reality

Question 15

Sound and Fury

Answer 15

great, tumultuous, and passionate uproar unimportant or meaningless.