birdcage

• “I will concede that the image of a cow squeezed into a birdcage is amusing.”

  Milking the old cash cow « BuzzMachine

• “I didn't realize that the birdcage was a symbol of domestic happiness for Victorians.”

  Victoria Magazine June 1990, 1994

• “This became known as the birdcage thesis, and Chen and his allies were intent on keeping the bird in its cage.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS

• “This became known as the birdcage thesis, and Chen and his allies”

  Simon & Schuster: The Commanding Heights

• “With my hair sufficiently plastered down it was time for the birdcage aka "party veil".”

  Weddingbee

• “I'm most famous for my birdcage, which is a freestanding aerial rig, ten feet high by eight feet wide, with a hoop inside for my trapeze work.”

  British Blogs

• “One, for example, is a "birdcage" in the shape of Cuba that clearly expresses the anger Cuban people feel about being caged in by a repressive government.”

  Andy Schupak: Letter from Cuba

• “Within what was supposed to be a day or two of the removal of all the officers to a more secure "birdcage" outside the town, those two gentlemen vanished under the floor of their room, through a kind of tiny trap-door that I have often seen, but which was then partly concealed by a bed, and was apparently never noticed by their Boer custodians.”

  With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back

• “The BvS-10 recently entered the Afghan theater of operations as a key vehicle for the British Royal Marines, complete with anti-RPG slat/'birdcage' armor.”

  Defense Industry Daily

• “Since the Referendum Law was promulgated in 2003, it has been dubbed a "birdcage" law by critics who said the thresholds for putting a referendum proposal on the ballot and passing it were excessively high.”

  Taipei Times

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