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Which literary device is this? "When I am gone, he can put some dust on his shoes as he has always wanted." ~Thanks (I'm debating between idiom and allusion)
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Which literary device is this?

"When I am gone, he can put some dust on his shoes as he has always wanted."

~Thanks
(I'm debating between idiom and allusion)

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idiom is when you say something sarcastically like "break a leg!" or something like that! allusion is when you say something related to a political thing about humans, animals, objects, etc. so the answer to that will be allusion
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the answer to this is allusion
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