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Name: Big bad wolf
Origin: Children's story "The Three Little Pigs"
Characteristics: Evil, sly and dangerous

Name: Big brother
Origin: The Novel "1984" by George Orwell
Characteristics: Closely monitoring or supervising the work or activities of others in a secretive way

Name: Cinderella
Origin: Children's fairy story "Cinderella"
Characteristics:Poor, unloved and overworked. Rescued by a great love

Name: Dracula
Origin: The Novel "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Characteristics: Like a vampire. Sucking ideas or enthusiasm from people

Name: Homer Simpson
Origin:American cartoon TV series "The Simpsons"
Characteristics: Badly behaved, has bad manners

Name: Jekyll and Hyde
Origin: The novel "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson
Characteristics: Unpredictable. Tends to have mood swings - sometimes very nice, other times very angry and violent

Name: The Mad Hatter
Origin: Children's story "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
Characteristics: Unconventional, strange, crazy

Name: Peter Pan
Origin: Children's novel and stage play "Peter Pan" by J M Barrie
Characteristics: Childlike, refuses to grow up and act maturely

Name: Pinocchio
Origin: Children's novel "The Adventures of Pinocchio" Carlo Collodi
Characteristics: Tells lies

Name: Robin Hood
Origin: The legend of Robin Hood
Characteristics: Like an outlaw, wants to take money from the rich and give it to the poor. Concerned with issues of justice

Name: Scrooge
Origin: From the novel "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens
Characteristics: Mean, ungenerous, doesn't want anyone to have any fun

Name: Sherlock Holmes
Origin: From the detective novels, including "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", by Arthur Conan Doyle
Characteristics: Observant and logical

Name: Walter Mitty
Origin: From the short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber
Characteristics: A day-dreamer, fantasises about having great adventures

Name: Wonder Woman
Origin: The comic book "Wonder Woman" and TV series of the same name
Characteristics: Confident and physically powerful

copied from
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/flatmates/episode47/languagepoint.shtml