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"ref": "1932 December 23, “June & Duty”, in Time",
"text": "Two years ago he wrote of the Presidency as the \"final sacrifice,\" adding: \"The restraint, artificiality and loneliness in the White House... seems the life of a pet in a gilded cage.\"",
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"ref": "2009 March 27, Madeleine Bunting, “Patriarchal, yes. All bad? No”, in The Guardian",
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"ref": "2023 April 2, Jacob Mikanowski, “Beyond the Wall by Katja Hoyer review – the human face of the socialist state”, in The Observer, →ISSN",
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"(figuratively) A place (or, by extension, situation) which is superficially attractive but nevertheless constraining; a comfortable but confined situation."
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "place or situation which is attractive but constraining",
"word": "kultainen häkki"
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"sense": "place or situation which is attractive but constraining",
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"word": "cage dorée"
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"word": "prison dorée"
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"sense": "place or situation which is attractive but constraining",
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"word": "goldener Käfig"
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"sense": "place or situation which is attractive but constraining",
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"word": "złota klatka"
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"roman": "zolotája klétka",
"sense": "place or situation which is attractive but constraining",
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"word": "золота́я кле́тка"
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"word": "förgylld bur"
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"word": "altın kafes"
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"ref": "2009 March 27, Madeleine Bunting, “Patriarchal, yes. All bad? No”, in The Guardian",
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"word": "kultainen häkki"
},
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"sense": "place or situation which is attractive but constraining",
"tags": [
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"sense": "place or situation which is attractive but constraining",
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"word": "gilded cage"
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