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1. Brigadoon, n. View full entry 1968
...In allusive use. A place, person, or phenomenon likened in some way to Brigadoon, esp. on account of its mythical or idealized nature, its (romanticized) Scottishness, or its rare, fleeting...
2. Dalek, n. View full entry 1963
...A type of robot appearing in ‘Dr. Who’, a B.B.C. Television science-fiction programme; hence used allusively. Also attrib. and Comb....
3. fifth column, n. View full entry 1936
...Orig. the column of supporters which General Mola declared himself to have in Madrid, when he was besieging it in the Spanish Civil War, in addition to the four columns of his...
4. Oxfam, n. View full entry 1947
...A voluntary organization whose aim is the relief of poverty and suffering around the world by means of long-term development aid, emergency relief, and campaigning....
5. Ozzie and Harriet, n. and adj. View full entry 1974
...allusively. A married couple, esp. regarded as exemplifying traditional, wholesome, or idealized domesticity....
6. Rumpelstiltskin, n. View full entry 1852
...allusively. A person or thing likened in some way to Rumpelstiltskin....
7. Scotland Yard, n. View full entry 1830
...The London Metropolitan Police; esp. the Criminal Investigation Department of this....
8. St. Trinian's, n. View full entry 1958
...The name of a girls' school invented by the cartoonist Ronald Searle (19202011) in 1941. Used absol. and attrib. to designate allusively the...
9. Tardis, n. View full entry 1969
...In similative use, esp. as the type of something with a larger capacity than its outward appearance suggests, or with more to it than appears at first glance. Cf. Tardis-like....
10. 1984, n. View full entry 1956
...A totalitarian society in which propaganda and intensive surveillance techniques are used to subjugate the population. Hence allusively: a society in which personal freedom is (thought to be) similarly curtailed...
