allusions 16-30

To fail or be destroyed, lack of caution or excessive ambition

• Icarus

• deus ex machina

• tabula rasa

• tantalus

Prevent unrest by keeping people happy, deflecting concern.

• bread and circuses

• tabula rasa

• golden calf

• left-handed complliment

Surprising turn of events, makes things turn out all right, unsastifying and overly convenient.

• deus ex machina

• tabula rasa

• sword of damocles

• noble savage

unmarked and uninfluenced

• tabula rasa

• tantalus

• waterloo

• neon sequitr

To be offered something desirable, withheld

• tantalus

• waterloo

• svengli

• white elephant

aware of the necessity of some unpleasant realitites, located away from where they live.

• NIMBY

• Waterloo

• tantalus

• tabula rasa

suffer an ultimate, decisive defeat.

• waterloo

• tantalus

• white elephant

• sword of damocles

pointing out the falseness or pretentiousness of something

• the emperor's new clothes

• tantalus

• left-handed compliment

• sowrd of demgaofgle

despite being a compliment is insulting or rude in some way

• left-handed compliment

• golden calf

• deus ex machina

• icaurus

worshipped even it is not worthy of worship

• golden calf

• sword of damocles

• tabula rasa

• white eelephant