wooden language in Anglais

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      "name": "Locutions nominales en anglais",
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    "Calque du français langue de bois."
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      "word": "if-by-whiskey"
    },
    {
      "word": "newspeak"
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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",
          "text": "This wooden language, which in Communist countries denotes the official jargon of the press and of official speeches […]"
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        "Langue de bois."
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  "categories": [
    "Locutions nominales en anglais",
    "anglais"
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Calque du français langue de bois."
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Locution nominale",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "if-by-whiskey"
    },
    {
      "word": "newspeak"
    },
    {
      "word": "political correctness"
    },
    {
      "word": "weasel word"
    }
  ],
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        "Exemples en anglais",
        "Exemples en anglais à traduire"
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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",
          "text": "This wooden language, which in Communist countries denotes the official jargon of the press and of official speeches […]"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Langue de bois."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wooden language"
}

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"wooden language" meaning in Anglais

Noun