"wooden language" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Anglais]

  1. Langue de bois.
    Sense id: fr-wooden_language-en-noun-wd5bC~ff Categories (other): Exemples en anglais, Exemples en anglais à traduire
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: if-by-whiskey, newspeak, political correctness, weasel word
Categories (other): Locutions nominales en anglais, Anglais
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          "ref": "Douglas Rae,The Egalitarian State: Notes on a System of Contradictory Ideals, Daedalus: Hypocrisy, Illusion and Evasion, Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 108, No. 3, pp. 37–54 (p. 41), 1979",
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