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Example sentences for: allusion
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• Pure Japanese name written in khanji and romanji: Hikaru GENJI (The kanji component, hikaru, means light (as illumination); GENJI, always capitalized, seems to be a literary allusion to Lady Shikumi Murasaki's c. A.D. 1000 novel The Tale of Genji, Genji being the male protagonist.)
Both Longman and W9 estimate their macrostructure ( headwords/entries ) and their microstructure ( definitions ). But what of Cobuild and CED ? What do they mean by references ? In CED the relevant definition of reference seems to be “a book or passage referred to,” or perhaps “a mention or allusion”; in Cobuild , “something such as a number or name that tells you where you can obtain the information that you want, for example from a book, list, or map.
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.
This deliciously backhanded phrase--an allusion to Czechoslovakia's "socialism with a human face," which was crushed by Soviet tanks in 1968--conveyed three corrosive messages: that conservatism lacked compassion to begin with, that conservatives couldn't tolerate compassion, and that for this reason, conservatism, like socialism, was doomed.
Unless I'm missing a classical allusion, why is it not just dreamt ? The dictionary says “hoofs, rarely hooves” but only “roofs”; perhaps we tend to pronounce it as “rooves.”
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