[h1]Allusions of the Day[/h1] For each allusion, you are to create a summary of the origin and meaning of the term. This must contain the [b]background information/the story[/b] behind each allusion. The summary must contain the important details relating to [b]why the allusion currently means what it does.[/b] Also you must describe the [b]meaning of the word in current context[/b] - how would one use the term in everyday speech? [b]Allusions 81-90 will be due on Monday, April 2nd Allusion Test for 61-90 will be Monday, April 9th [/b] And that will be the last of the allusions! Current Week: 88) 3/19 - Pollyanna 89) 3/20 - Adonis 90) 3/21 - Sisyphean task Past Weeks 1) 8/29 - For the want of a nail 2) 9/6 - Juggernaut 3) 9/8 - Scheherazade 4) 9/12 - Throw down the gauntlet 5) 9/13 - Milquetoast 6) 9/14 - Albatross Around One's Neck 7) 9/15 - Pound of Flesh 8) 9/19 - Crossing the Rubicon 9) 9/20 - Red Herring 10) 9/21 - Gordian Knot 11) 9/22 - Bedlam 12) 9/23 - Betrayed by a kiss 13) 9/26 - Prometheus/Promethean 14) 9/27 - Pearls before Swine 15) 9/28 - Argonaut 16) 9/29 - Malapropism 17) 9/30 - Svengali 18) 10/3 - Catch 22 19) 10/4 - 15 minutes of Fame 20) 10/5 - Chip on one’s shoulder 21) 10/6 - Yahoo 22) 10/11 - Salad days 23) 10/13 - Flying too close to the sun 24)10/17 - Draconian 25)10/18 - The prodigal son 26)10/19 - Crocodile tears 27) 10/21 - The lion's den 28) 10/24 - Harpy 29) 10/25 - Achille's Heel 30) 10/26 - Stealing someone's thunder 31) 11/7 - Electra complex / Oedipus complex 32) 11/9 - Lilies of the field 33) 11/10 - Sound and fury 34) 11/14 - Sacred cow 35) 11/15 - Blue moon 36) 11/16 - Amazonian 37) 11/18 - Sacrificial lamb 38) 11/28 - Kafkaesque 39) 11/29 - Cup of Trembling 40) 11/30 - Machiavellian 41) 12/1 - Sour grapes 42) 12/2 - Bell the cat 43) 12/5 - Quixotic 44) 12/6 - Scapegoat 45) 12/7 - Pavlovian 46) 12/8 - Waterloo 47) 12/12 - Eye of the Needle 48) 12/13 - Man Friday 49) 12/14 - Midas Touch 50) 12/15 - Fellini, Felliniesque 51) 12/16 - Gift of the magi 52) 1/3 - Armageddon 53) 1/4 - Delphic 54) 1/5 - Homer, Homeric 55) 1/6 - White Whale 56) 1/9 - Holy Grail 57) 1/10 - Leviathan 58) 1/11 - Behemoth 59) 1/12 - Spoonerism 60) 1/13 - Swan Song 61) 2/1 - Spartan 62) 2/2 - Jezebel 63) 2/3 - Land of milk and honey 64)2/6 - Good Samaritan 65) 2/7 - Golden Fleece 66) 2/8 - Faustian 67) 2/9 - forbidden fruit 68) 2/10 - witch hunt 69) 2/21 - Blue Blood 70) 2/22 - Babylon 71) 2/23 - pale horse 72) 2/24 - Trojan Horse 73) 2/27 - Rosetta Stone 74) 2/28 - Typhoid Mary 75) 2/29 - Babel 76) 3/1 - Limbo 77) 3/2 - Purgatory 78) 3/5 - widow’s mite 79) 3/6 - Benedict Arnold 80) 3/7 - Fiddling while Rome burns 81) 3/8 - Pyrrhic victory 82) 3/9 - Rich as Croesus 83) 3/12 - Nemesis 84) 3/13 - Pandora's box 85) 3/14 - Protean 86) 3/15 - Thirty pieces of silver 87) 3/16 - Lolita

Throw down the Gauntlet a) In Medieval Times, knights wore protective gloves called gauntlets. A knight would throw this glove down in front of another knight as a form of a challenge. b) In modern terms, "throwing down the gauntlet" means to issue a challenge even if the issuer doesn't literaly throw down a chainmail glove to the ground.

Example - Throw down the Gauntlet