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Example sentences for: allusion

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8. Coffin nail is a later allusion to `cigarette': in its earlier metaphoric life it referred to anything that might serve to drive one to an early grave; indeed, some early Western saloons sold tokens bearing the words “coffin nail” stamped on them which were good for a shot of redeye.
P.S.: A personal aside: Your allusion to Earl Browder fell wide of the polemical mark with me, because I actually lived next door to Earl Browder as a child.
The allusion is to the sticks with which boys played at cat.
cat's paw to be made a tool or instrument to accomplish the purpose of another: an allusion to the story of a monkey that made use of a cat's paw to scratch a roasted chestnut out of the fire.
. His terminology abounds in sexual allusion” (1962, 59).