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| 5236156659 | Loaves and Fishes | A miraculous abundance in the face of scarcity Origin: Gospels | 0 | |
| 5236156660 | Achille's Heel | Particular area of vulnerability, especially of a seemingly invincible person. Origin: Greek mythology | 1 | |
| 5236156661 | Pound of flesh | Someone's insistance on being paid even if the payment will harm/destroy the debtor. Origin: Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice | 2 | |
| 5236156662 | Crossing the Rubicon | To take a dangerous, often irreversible step. Origin: Julius Caesar crossed this river while traveling illegally to Italy to avoid returning home to the Senate. | 3 | |
| 5236156663 | Siren | Anything that tempts a person from safety to a path of destruction Origin: Greek mythology | 4 | |
| 5236156664 | Thirty pieces of silver | Payment received for act of treachery Origin: Bible | 5 | |
| 5236156665 | Gordian Knot | Solving a very complex, difficult knot in a quick, easy manner. Origin: Greek king Gordius tied this impossible-to-untie knot and said that whoever would untie it would rule all of Asia. Alex the Great, the boss that he is, just cut the knot. | 6 | |
| 5236156666 | All that glitters is not gold | Appearances can be deceptive. Origin: Latin proverb derived from Aristotle | 7 | |
| 5236156667 | Ivory Tower | A person who is secluded/protected from the real world and is out of touch with reality. Origin: French poetry | 8 | |
| 5236156668 | Sound and Fury | A great, tumultuous, passionate uproar that is actually meaningless. Origin: Shakespeare's Macbeth. | 9 | |
| 5236156669 | Tantalus | To be tantalized: offered something and then withheld. Origin: Greek mythology | 10 | |
| 5236156670 | Tabula Rasa | Unmarked and uninfluenced Origin: John Locke used it to refer to the mind of a young person. It's latin for a "clean slate." | 11 | |
| 5236156671 | Waterloo | To meet this is to suffer an ultimate and decisive defeat. Origin: Napoleon was defeated at here in the final battle of the Napoleonic wars of 1815. | 12 | |
| 5236156672 | Golden Calf | Something that is worshipped, but not worthy of it. Origin: Book of Exodus | 13 | |
| 5236156673 | Sword of Damocles | awareness of impending doom or danger. Origin: Greek myth. | 14 | |
| 5236156674 | Svengali | Someone who exercises total and complete control over someone else. Origin: French novel, Trilby. | 15 | |
| 5236156675 | White Elephant | Something beautiful, but ironically useless, difficult to maintain and senseless to keep. Origin: Cultures in India used to keep beautiful white elephants but they became a burden to their owners. | 16 | |
| 5236156676 | Magnus Opus | Great work. Origin: Latin | 17 | |
| 5236156677 | Janus | Both positive and negative aspects of the same thing. Origin: Roman mythology. | 18 | |
| 5236156678 | Noble Savage | Someone who has not been corrupted by society. Origin: Western philosophy | 19 | |
| 5236156679 | Narcisuss | To be super in love with yourself, particularly your appearance. Origin: Greek mythology | 20 | |
| 5236156680 | Scheherazade | A good and suspenseful storyteller. Origin: She was the narrator of the Arabian nights | 21 | |
| 5236156681 | Lot's wife | Someone who unwisely chooses to look back once a course of action has been chosen. Also means someone who disobeys an explicit rule or command. Origin: Book of Genesis | 22 | |
| 5236156682 | Catch 22 | An absurd, no win situation. Origin: A novel by Joseph Heller | 23 | |
| 5236156683 | Cassandra | A person who predicts misfortune frequently and accurately, but is not believed. Origin: Greek mythology | 24 | |
| 5236156684 | Muse | A creature/ thing/person of inspiration. Origin: Greek mythology. | 25 | |
| 5236156685 | Nemesis | Enemy/a fit punishment for one who inflicts due punishment Origin: Greek mythology | 26 | |
| 5236156686 | Faustian | Compromising one's values for profit | 27 | |
| 5236156687 | Witch hunt | Persecution based on unfounded accusations | 28 | |
| 5236156688 | Red Herring | Something that is meant to be distracting or misleading | 29 | |
| 5236156689 | Tower of Babel | Confusion or chaos Origin: Biblical | 30 | |
| 5236156690 | Prometheus | One who defies authority and suffers terrible punishment for it Origin: Greek mythology | 31 | |
| 5236156691 | Mark of Cain | refers to the sinful nature of a person such as the mark placed on the firstborn son of Adam and Eve | 32 | |
| 5236156692 | Lost Generation | Generation of young men and women who died during World War I. | 33 | |
| 5236156693 | The American Dream | An idea or set of ideals in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and upward mobility achieved by hard work. | 34 | |
| 5236156694 | Forbidden Fruit | An illegal or immoral pleasure | 35 | |
| 5236156695 | Scapegoat | Someone who takes punishment for other's actions. Origin: Bible | 36 | |
| 5236156696 | Handwriting on the wall | A sign of imminent doom or misfortune | 37 | |
| 5236156697 | Albatross around one's neck | A burden someone has to carry | 38 | |
| 5236156698 | Bedlam | A place that is noisy or chaotic | 39 | |
| 5236156699 | Don Quixote | Extremely impractical, idealistic or unrealistic | 40 | |
| 5236156700 | Sold down the river | Betrayed or cheated | 41 | |
| 5236156701 | Doublespeak | Deliberately disguising, distorting or reversing the meaning of words | 42 | |
| 5236156702 | Kafkaesque | having a nightmarishly complex, bizarre of illogical quality | 43 | |
| 5236156703 | Xanadu | and idyllic, exotic or luxurious place | 44 | |
| 5236156704 | Exodus | A mass departure | 45 | |
| 5236156705 | To go native | adopting the idea of the native people of a particular area. | 46 | |
| 5236156706 | Jim Crow | The practice of discrimintation against blacks/derogatory term for black | 47 | |
| 5236156707 | Leah and Rachel | the wives of Jacob | 48 | |
| 5236156708 | Phoenix | The fiery bird alludes to rebirth | 49 |
