thinly veiled allusion

Befitting a medical show, several executives said that would come only through "the biological solution," a thinly veiled allusion to the aging Mr. Castro.

Nosferatu (1922) - unlicensed German adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel; featuring "Count Orlok", a thinly veiled allusion to Dracula; starring Max Schreck.

Dinkins Lashes Out He lashed out at Mr. Stein for his spending in a thinly veiled allusion when the Mayor was asked about Ross Perot's decision to withdraw from the Presidential race.

The Manchurian Candidate, by Richard Condon, took a different approach and portrayed a Communist conspiracy against the U.S.A acting not through leftists or pacifists but through a thinly veiled allusion to Joe McCarthy.

Mickiewicz's Konrad Wallenrod (1828), a narrative poem describing battles of the Christian order of Teutonic Knights against the pagans of Lithuania, is a thinly veiled allusion to the long feud between Russia and Poland.

Compositions such as "Banana In Your Fruit Basket", written by Bo Carter of the Mississippi Sheiks, used thinly veiled allusions, which typically employed food and animals as metaphors in a lusty manner worthy of Chaucer.

His statement, with its thinly veiled allusion to past German passivity before the rise of rightist violence, reflected growing concern in the government over an abrupt increase in such attacks in a country that has more than seven million foreigners but remains uneasy with the idea that it is a "land of immigration."

Some Russian commentators construed Russia's prime minister Vladimir Putin's comments about the ultimate fate that is bound to befall "traitors" made on July 24, 2010, while talking to reporters about the members of the 'Illegals Program', as a thinly veiled allusion to Tretyakov's death.