“Hansel and Gretel”

Cultural  

1. A story in the Grimm collection of fairy tales. Hansel and Gretel, two children abandoned in the woods, are befriended by a witch, who tries to cook and eat them, but Gretel shoves the witch into the oven instead.

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Example Sentences

His main qualification was that he owns and lives in one of the finest examples of Storyboook style in the region: the Witch’s House, a medieval-looking masterpiece that is more befitting a “Hansel and Gretel” adaptation than the streets of Beverly Hills.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s where Klaus films an alleged masterpiece on his own back lot, an artsy “Hansel and Gretel” allegory that MGM refused to release, and then attempts to burn down in a fury.

From Los Angeles Times

One of her own drawings, a sort of Hansel and Gretel scenario, will also play a part in the action, which is ripe with echoes and reflections and uncanny parallels, along with dead people who might be ghosts or visions or psychological projections, or some combination thereof.

From Los Angeles Times

During story time, she got so lost in the tale that she yelled out, “No, Hansel and Gretel, don’t drop bread crumbs! Use rocks! Or pine cones! Something the birds won’t eat!”

From Literature

He tried not to think about where Hansel and Gretel had ended up.

From Literature