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Idiom

Gilded cage.

If someone is in a gilded cage, they are trapped and have restricted or no freedom, but have very comfortable surroundings- many famous people live in luxury but cannot walk out of their house alone.

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Gilded cage

noun

A place (or, by extension, situation) which is superficially attractive but nevertheless constraining; a comfortable but confined situation.

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From this gilded cage, Schiaparelli's flights of fancy seem a merciful escape.

Somebody's mother or sister playing "A Bird in a Gilded Cage" off of sheet music.

Natalia Tena's Fevvers begins as a voluptuously decorative, music-hall icon singing "I'm Only A Bird In A Gilded Cage".

On the other hand, Philius doesn't really have the brains to be manipulative; he's a little cooing bird who would be perfectly happy in somebody else's gilded cage.

These overlapping elements - magic carpet, gilded cage, miraculous tree - seem rooted in eastern European fairy tales but separately return you to modern reality.

And in its Hamptons setting we have an appropriately lush mise-en-scene cum gilded cage where The Beautiful People Who Dress In Pastels live.

Troy Soos has a terrific story to tell in THE GILDED CAGE (Kensington, $23).

Forget about a gilded cage.

In like some kind of gilded cage".

Kaoru saw the place as a gilded cage.

Life outside the gilded cage suddenly looked grimly imprisoning.

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