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TSU7L5 allusions

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  • snake
    serpent, Satan
  • a capricious person with two sides to his personality
    Jekyll and Hyde
  • Does it count if we were on a break?
    Friends
  • She felt like she had a golden ticket.
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • I want to sound like Queen B.
    Beyoncé
  • looking like Venus
    alluding to the goddess of beauty
  • pushing a boulder uphill every day
    allusion to Sisyphus
  • can’t stop staring at himself
    allusion to Narcissus
  • carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders
    allusion to Atlas
  • garden
    Eden, creation
  • hot as Hades
    alluding to the god of death / king of the underworld
  • She smiles like a Cheshire cat.
    Alice in Wonderland
  • His smile is like kryptonite to me.
    Superman’s weakness
  • Achilles’ heel
    alluding to the one weakness of Achilles
  • Uncle Sam
    government of people of the United States; derived from Uncle Sam, a business man in the 1900s.
  • a bitter and/or greedy person
    Scrooge from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
  • I’m listening to the king.
    Elvis Presley
  • If I’m not home by midnight, my car might turn into a pumpkin.
    Cinderella
  • opening Pandora’s box
    alluding to Pandora’s myth of letting trouble into the world
  • apple/fruit
    tree of knowledge, temptation
  • I wish I could just click my heels.
    The Wizard of Oz
  • His job is like pulling a sword out of a stone.
    King Arthur Legend
  • arrow of love
    allusion to Cupid
  • I have a caped crusader costume.
    Batman
  • My math teacher is he who must not be named.
    Voldemort from the Harry Potter series
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