iron cage

NOUN
  1. a cage from which there is no escape
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How To Use iron cage In A Sentence

  • One day a young man caught a young tiger, and he kept it in an iron cage.
  • Occasionally . . . he carries in his hand an iron cage in which are ferrets, while two or three crop-eared rough terriers dog his footsteps. Sociology most Dickensian
  • In his second term, of course, Houdini submersed himself in a padlocked iron cage a mile deep in boiling water and left his fate to a gaggle of witches, a silly young intern, and Inspector Javerts.
  • It is pitiful to see that the life of an animal in a zoo is spent in an locked iron cage.
  • It is pitiful to see that the life of an animal in a zoo is spent in an locked iron cage.
  • But from the centre of the great basin, or rather bowl, which forms the mine, there ran up two wires to the high mound erected on the circumference, on which continually two iron cages were travelling up and down, coming back empty, but going up laden with gemmiferous dirt. An Old Man's Love
  • When an eagle in an iron cage with a pair of eyes and beg you, what you think?
  • Chamber 7e is dominated by a man-size iron cage which hangs from a ceiling hook.
  • You see, some people put two locks on their bicycles and an iron cage outside their windows to prevent robberies.
  • Sociologists, such as Durkheim, Marx, and Weber have all discussed the central problem of modernity with their ideas about anomie, alienation, and the iron cage of bureaucracy.
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