Both Uses of
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Catch-22
- The vast majority consisted of allusions to prior communications which Major Major had never seen or heard of.†
Chpt 9 *
- General Peckem chuckled with jaunty relish and sailed smoothly along toward a favorite learned allusion.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
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(allude) to make an indirect referenceeditor's notes: The expression, no allusion can mean "not even an indirect reference"; i.e., neither a direct nor an indirect reference to something.