Cultural Literacy Flashcards
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Achilles heel
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Weakness
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“Low-hanging fruit”
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Easy to pick
2
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800-lb gorilla
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An uncomfortable topic
3
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“Fish or cut bait”
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Do something or get out of the way
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Occam’s Razor
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Simplest explanation is best
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Murphy’s Law
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If something can go wrong, it will
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Sisyphean
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Virtually impossible task
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“It was the best of times…”
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A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
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“April is the cruelest month.”
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The Wasteland, TS Eliot
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Roaring Twenties/Flappers/Jazz Age
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Have/have nots
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Avant-garde
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On guard
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Crossing the Rubicon
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Point of no return
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Bull/bear market
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Strong/weak market
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NIMBY
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Not In My BackYard
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Peter Pan Complex
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Never wanting to grow old
