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IRON CAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does iron cage mean?
• IRON CAGE (noun)
The noun IRON CAGE has 1 sense:
1. a cage from which there is no escape
Familiarity information: IRON CAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A cage from which there is no escape
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("iron cage" is a kind of...):
cage (something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement)
Context examples
There was great astonishment over the wild man; the king, however, had him put in an iron cage in his courtyard, and forbade the door to be opened on pain of death, and the queen herself was to take the key into her keeping.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
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