📚 noun • entry_id 54796
gilded cage
Meanings (ES + gloss)
jaula de oro • jaula dorada
A place (or, by extension, situation) which is superficially attractive but nevertheless constraining; a comfortable but confined situation.
There were no bars on the windows, no jangling keys, no doors to lock or unlock. It was altogether pleasant, but I never forgot that it was a gilded cage.
Two years ago he wrote of the Presidency as the "final sacrifice," adding: "The restraint, artificiality and loneliness in the White House... seems the life of a pet in a gilded ca…
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