"white-telephone" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Adjective form of white telephone.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more white-telephone",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most white-telephone",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1972, Pauline Kael, The New Yorker:",
          "text": "Astaire and Rogers were fortunate: they embodied the swing-music, white-telephone, streamlined era before the Second World War, when frivolousness wasn't decadent, and when adolescents dreamed that 'going out' was dressing up and becoming part of a beautiful world of top hats and silver lamé.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Characteristic of the Italian genre of film called white telephone; suggesting consequence-free lives of privilege."
      ],
      "id": "en-white-telephone-en-adj-C~n6ZImp",
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
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        [
          "white telephone",
          "white telephone"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(often derogatory) Characteristic of the Italian genre of film called white telephone; suggesting consequence-free lives of privilege."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "white telephone"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "often"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "white-telephone"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Adjective form of white telephone.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more white-telephone",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most white-telephone",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "white-telephone (comparative more white-telephone, superlative most white-telephone)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        "English multiword terms",
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        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "ref": "1972, Pauline Kael, The New Yorker:",
          "text": "Astaire and Rogers were fortunate: they embodied the swing-music, white-telephone, streamlined era before the Second World War, when frivolousness wasn't decadent, and when adolescents dreamed that 'going out' was dressing up and becoming part of a beautiful world of top hats and silver lamé.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Characteristic of the Italian genre of film called white telephone; suggesting consequence-free lives of privilege."
      ],
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          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
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        [
          "white telephone",
          "white telephone"
        ]
      ],
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        "(often derogatory) Characteristic of the Italian genre of film called white telephone; suggesting consequence-free lives of privilege."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "often"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "white telephone"
    }
  ],
  "word": "white-telephone"
}