diff --git a/tokenizers/src/models/bpe/serialization.rs b/tokenizers/src/models/bpe/serialization.rs
index 24525a551..bbf37b6b5 100644
--- a/tokenizers/src/models/bpe/serialization.rs
+++ b/tokenizers/src/models/bpe/serialization.rs
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ mod test {
             .unwrap();
 
         let legacy = r#"{"type":"BPE","dropout":null,"unk_token":"<unk>","continuing_subword_prefix":null,"end_of_word_suffix":null,"fuse_unk":false,"byte_fallback":false,"ignore_merges":true,"vocab":{"<unk>":0,"a":1,"b":2,"ab":3},"merges":["a b"]}"#;
-        let legacy = serde_json::from_str(&legacy).unwrap();
+        let legacy = serde_json::from_str(legacy).unwrap();
         assert_eq!(bpe, legacy);
 
         let data = serde_json::to_string(&bpe).unwrap();
diff --git a/tokenizers/src/models/mod.rs b/tokenizers/src/models/mod.rs
index 59e981fac..cdfb731a8 100644
--- a/tokenizers/src/models/mod.rs
+++ b/tokenizers/src/models/mod.rs
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ mod tests {
 
         let model = ModelWrapper::BPE(bpe);
         let legacy = r#"{"type":"BPE","dropout":null,"unk_token":"<unk>","continuing_subword_prefix":null,"end_of_word_suffix":null,"fuse_unk":false,"byte_fallback":false,"ignore_merges":true,"vocab":{"<unk>":0,"a":1,"b":2,"ab":3},"merges":["a b"]}"#;
-        let legacy = serde_json::from_str(&legacy).unwrap();
+        let legacy = serde_json::from_str(legacy).unwrap();
         assert_eq!(model, legacy);
 
         let data = serde_json::to_string(&model).unwrap();