studying for english exam
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| What is the background/origin of the Achillies' Heel? | show 🗑
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| What is the modern definition of the Achillies' Heel? | show 🗑
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| show | Biblical King who saw a hand appear and predict the end of his reign
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| What is the modern definition of Handwriting on the Wall? | show 🗑
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| show | King Siam gave this as a gift to those who displeased him
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| What is the modern definition of White Elephant? | show 🗑
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| What is the background/origin of Sound and Fury? | show 🗑
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| What is the modern definition of Sound and Fury? | show 🗑
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| What is the background/origin of Cain? | show 🗑
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| show | Causing trouble or commotion
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| show | Biblical figure who lived to be 969 years old
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| What is the modern definition of Methuselah? | show 🗑
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| show | Mythical bird that rose from the ashes of destruction
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| What is the modern definition of Phoenix? | show 🗑
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| show | Medieval legend of a cup that Jesus drank from at The Last Supper
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| What is the modern definition of Holy Grail? | show 🗑
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| What is the background origin of Machiavellian? | show 🗑
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| show | Elaborately cunning and scheming
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| show | Sane airmen trying to prove insanity so they can be relieved of flight duty, but to prove insanity, they are obviously sane
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| What is the modern definition of Catch-22? | show 🗑
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| show | French poet, Alfred DeVingy, shut himself up in an ivory-colored tower so he could write beautiful poems
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| show | Being out of touch with reality
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| show | Sigmund Freud was a psychotherapist whose work centered on the subconscious mind
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| show | An unintentional slip of the tongue that reveal subconscious thought
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| show | Famous Gorgon sister who has snakes for hair and turned people to stone with a look
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| show | Repulsive or terrifying woman
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| What is the background/origin of Murphy's Law? | show 🗑
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| What is the modern definition of Murphy's Law? | show 🗑
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| What is the background/origin of Icarus? | show 🗑
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| What is the modern definition of Icarus? | show 🗑
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| What is the background/origin of Pavlov's Dogs/Pavlovian? | show 🗑
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| show | An automatic, unthinking response
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| What is the background/origin of Throw Down the Gauntlet? | show 🗑
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| What is the modern definition of Throw Down the Gauntlet? | show 🗑
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| What is the background/origin of Scapegoat? | show 🗑
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| What is the modern definition of Scapegoat? | show 🗑
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| What is the background/origin Left-handed Compliment? | show 🗑
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| show | A compliment that is also rude and insulting in some way
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| What is the background/origin Juggernaut? | show 🗑
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| show | Any destructive force that defies opposition
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| show | In Greek Mythology, a beautiful youth who was loved by Aphrodite and Persephone
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| show | A man with a handsome face and gorgeous body
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| show | Nickname for mental hospital in London where people wandered the halls screaming and fighting
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| What is the modern definition of Bedlam? | show 🗑
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