iron cage

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   a cage from which there is no escape

   Broadercage

Questions about iron cage

What does iron cage mean?

iron cage means "a cage from which there is no escape".

Is iron cage a common word?

iron cage is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.