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| 14913179354 | Golden Calf | an image of gold in the shape of a calf, made by Aaron in response to the Israelites' plea for a god while they awaited for Moses' return. | 0 | |
| 14913184182 | Hobbitlike | resembling or befitting a hobbit. | 1 | |
| 14913188451 | Holden Caulfield | the protagonist and narrator of the story | 2 | |
| 14913191476 | " It's Greek to Me" | This expression was coined by Shakespeare, who used it literally in Julius Caesar | 3 | |
| 14913191477 | Judas | Apostle who betrayed Jesus | 4 | |
| 14913197870 | Kafkaesque | characteristic or reminiscent of the oppressive or nightmarish qualities of Franz Kafka's fictional world. | 5 | |
| 14913202921 | Land of Lilliput | This is a fictional land in the story "Gulliver's Travels" | 6 | |
| 14913207550 | Little Black Sambo | a children's book written by Helen Bannerman in 1899; the story of a little boy who has to sacrifice his clothes to tigers, but ends up outwitting them; the story has been considered controversial because of the word "Sambo," which has become a racial slur in America. | 7 | |
| 14913207551 | Lucifer | Satan | 8 | |
| 14913210954 | Manna from heaven | An unexpected benefit or assistance especially when it comes at the time when it is needed most. | 9 | |
| 14913215102 | Mephistophelean | devilish or crafty | 10 | |
| 14913218565 | Muse | a person or personified force who is the source of inspiration for a creative artist - each of the nine goddesses, the daughter Zeus and Mnemosyne preside over the art and sciences. | 11 | |
| 14913218566 | Oedipus complex | according to Freud, a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father | 12 | |
| 14913224403 | Orwellian | characteristic of the writings of George Orwell, especially with reference to his dystopian account of a future totalitarian state in Nineteen Eighty-Four | 13 | |
| 14916791023 | Pandora's Box | a process that generates many complicated problems as the result of unwise interference in something | 14 | |
| 14916791024 | Panglossian | marked by the view that all is for the best in this best of possible worlds : excessively optimistic | 15 | |
| 14916796148 | pound of flesh | insistence on being repaid | 16 | |
| 14916800281 | Procrustes | In Greek mythology, he was a thief of Attica who placed anyone he captured on an iron bed. If the person was too tall he cut off whatever hung over; it too short, he stretched the person until he fit. "Procrustean bed" connotes a rigid standard to which exact conformity is enforced | 17 | |
| 14916813259 | Carpe diem | used to urge someone to make the most of the present time and give little thought to the future. | 18 | |
| 14916822325 | Big Brother | a person or organization exercising total control over people's lives. | 19 |
