iron cage

collocation in English

meaningsofironandcage

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iron
noun
uk
/aɪən/us
/aɪrn/
a chemical element that is a common greyish-coloured metal. It is strong, used in making steel, and exists in very small amounts ...
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cage
noun[C]
uk
/keɪdʒ/us
/keɪdʒ/
a space surrounded on all sides by bars or wire, in which animals or birds ...
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(Definition ofironandcagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Instead of providing a potential escape from an ' ' enervating civilization ' ' they proved complicit in theironcagethey were embraced to resist.
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His gloomy image of the 'ironcage' of reason echoed the fears of earlier romantics and was to be repeated by later cultural pessimists through the twentieth century.
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All one can hear is the rattling of the bars in theironcage.
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What other explanation can there be for these two people attending the preliminary hearing under heavy guard and in anironcage, as though they were dangerous predators?
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A carcass was so named because theironcagewas thought to resemble the ribs of a body.
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He was reportedly produced in court in anironcage.
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The staircase inside leads to a platform that can hold three persons and is topped by anironcage.
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Theironcageis the one set of rules and laws that we are all subjected and must adhere to.
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Some sources claim that he had anironcagebuilt that was used as a prison.
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The manager of a local tea estate captured the tiger in a baitedironcage.
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Theironcagethus traps individuals in systems based purely on teleological efficiency, rational calculation and control.
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Andrew in particular believes that scientifically managed leisure is the closing of anironcageof technological rationality on all human life.
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Pups were maintained in sterilized individual iron cages and fed on bread, boiled rice, milk, sugar and glucose.
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Hezekiah had anticipated any attempts to move his body, and had been interred in an iron coffin encased in anironcagethat had been set in concrete.
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The rich could afford heavy table tombstones, vaults, mausolea and iron cages around graves.
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During the trial, the defendants were kept in reinforced iron cages, as they were considered extremely dangerous.
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Prisoners were kept in an iron cages upstairs, while the jailer and his family lived downstairs.
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