allusion
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Allusion in the previous episode to the scorpion and frog fable?
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026
If we were playing Literary Allusion Bingo, one of us would already have five across, but we’ve still got a long night ahead.
From Washington Post • Sep. 5, 2017
This is a movie that invites you to play a game of Name That Allusion, with Dean, Leone and so forth.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 8, 2015
This is a movie that, after all, invites you to play a game of Name That Allusion, with Dean, Leone and so forth.
From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2014
Allusion may be made to the humorous description of Captain Marryat concerning the Badian boy: “King George never fear, sir, long as Badian boy ’tan’ ’tiff.”
From George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life by Fenn, George Manville
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