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gilded cage in British English

(ˈɡɪldɪd keɪdʒ)
noun
a place where someone appears to live in luxury but where he or she has very little freedom
A gilded cage was created to keep Nepal's monarchs completely isolated from theirsubjects.

Examples of 'gilded cage' in a sentence
gilded cage

It felt like a gilded cage.
Amanda Mackenzie Stuart Consuelo & Alva: Love and Power in the Gilded Age (2005)
West of Eden is an unusual take on life in the gilded cage.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
She was the bird in the gilded cage, cursed by her hereditary lot.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
It might be a gilded cage but it's still a cage.
The Sun (2011)
It is a gilded cage, half pleasure and half prison.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
How must they have felt here, in their gilded cage?
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
A gilded cage was still a cage.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
We are back in our gilded cage now, allowed out only to places the regime wants to show us.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Still, it was a gilded cage, at least at first.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It's a gilded cage that's very difficult to live in.
The Sun (2013)
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