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English 16 Public

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His smile is like kryptonite to me.

Superman’s weakness

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She felt like she had a golden ticket.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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I wish I could just click my heels and go home.

The Wizard of Oz

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If I’m not home by midnight, my car might turn into a pumpkin.

Cinderella

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She smiles like a Cheshire cat.

Alice in Wonderland

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His job is like pulling a sword out of a stone.

King Arthur Legend

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I’m listening to the king.

Elvis Presley

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Chocolate is my Achilles’ heel.

alluding to the one weakness of Achilles

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She was hit by the arrow of love.

allusion to Cupid

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You look like you are carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders.

allusion to Atlas

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She walked in looking like Venus.

alluding to the goddess of beauty

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By doing that controversial thing, we could be opening Pandora’s box.

alluding to Pandora’s myth of letting trouble into the world

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Austin can’t stop staring at himself.

allusion to Narcissus

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She as a Jekyll and Hyde personality.

Jekyll and Hyde

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Ask Uncle Sam for help.

government of people of the United States; derived from Uncle Sam, a business man in the 1900s.

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My math teacher is he who must not be named.

Voldemort from the Harry Potter series

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