Allusions quiz #2 Flashcards
NIMBY
Not in my back yard
Sword of Damocles
Greek King
Sword suspended above Damocles
Always Impending Danger
Tabula Rosa
Blank slate
John Locke
Unaffected expierence
Tantalus
Greek Mythology
Tantalus condemned to suffer eternal hunger and thirst in hades
Water and apples receed
To be offered something valuable then it is taken away
Fiddle While Rome Burns
Regin of Emperor Nero
Display indifference in the midst of an Emergency
Left Handed Compliment
Something Negative
Despite Being Compliment Is Rude or Insulting
The Golden Calf
Moses leading the people out of Mount Sinai
Worshipped without Being Worthy of it
Svengali
Trilby
Exercises Complete Control
Non Sequitur
Latin
Doesn’t follow
White Elephant
Given by the king of Siam to financial ruin them
Has no use
Financial burden
Deus ex machina
God from the machine
Classical theater
Crane
A god would suspend from the ceiling to solve a problem
Waterloo
1815
Neapolean Bonaparte was finally defeated
The emperors new clothes
Showing the falseness of something
Christian Anderson story
