bamboo curtain
noun (often the Bamboo Curtain) chiefly historical
A political and economic barrier between China and noncommunist countries.While some have escaped the "bamboo curtain," many others are still trapped behind it....
- You send such an important message to people who are in chains and suffering from torture behind the Bamboo Curtain of communism.
- Stalin's victory over Japan would have placed that country squarely behind the bamboo curtain.
Origin
1940s: after Iron Curtain..
- make someone's blood curdle
- make someone's blood run cold
- make someone's day
- make someone's eyes pop (or pop out)
- make someone's flesh crawl (or creep)
- make someone's hackles rise
- make someone's hair curl
- make someone's hair stand on end
- make someone sick
- make someone's life a misery (or make life a misery for someone)
- make someone's skin crawl
- make someone's skin crawl (or creep)
- make someone's toes curl
- make someone/thing out
- striking price
- strimmer
- Strindberg, August
- Strindbergian
- Strine
- string
- string along
- string bass
- string bean
- string bed
- string bikini