Waste not want not a puritanic aphorism credited to John Platt, nineteenth-century author of Economy, a compendium of platitudes.
We don't seem to have much in common a humorous twist on a cliche common to the seductive line of seducers in novels, movies, and television soap operas
Whirlwind a high-powered car that suggests the biblical injunction from Hosea 8:7, a mournful complaint warning wayward Israelites: "They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be its yield, the strangers shall swallow it UP."
"Whispering Hope" a familiar gospel hymn suggesting the fleeting hopes of Handmaids who may remain alive only if they conceive.
Whore of Babylon a slang insult found in Shakespeare's Henry V (II, iii, 37) and derived from Jeremiah's concern that God's people had taken up Babylonian excesses of bawdy dress, idol worship, and immoral behavior.
women in long somber dresses the pictures on the walls of the museum depict the area's Puritan ancestry.
Women's Salvagings a public execution presided over and carried out by women, which is acted out in Chapter 14.
Word perfect the trademark of a popular computer word processing program.
yellow stars symbols of Judaism selected by Hitler's forces as required badges to identify Jews.
