| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Stealing Someone's Thunder | take credit for the idea of another |
| Witch Hunt | campaign against a particular group of people |
| Throw Down the Gauntlet | issuing a challenge in a dramatic manner |
| The Muses | source of inspiration |
| Kafkaesque | bizarre, surreal, or anxiety-producing |
| Tower of Babel | noisy confusion |
| Pollyanna | unusually cheerful + looking on the bright side (naive) |
| Pavlov's Dogs | automatically responds to a signal |
| Bedlam | wildly chaotic / extremely raucous and noisy |
| The Handwriting on the Wall | indication that doom or misfortune is coming |
| Albatross Around One's Neck | burdensome, ongoing problem |
| Prometheus | valiant resistance to authority or rebellion against the universe order |
| Juggernaut | a destructive force that defies opposition |
| Red Herring | diverting someone / diverting onto a false trail from the true issue |
| Pharisees | a hypocrite who upholds the letter of the law, but not its spirit |
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