birdcage

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

Milking the old cash cow « BuzzMachine 2005

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

Victoria Magazine June 1990, 1994 2009

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

The Commanding Heights DANIEL YERGIN 1998

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

THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS DANIEL YERGIN 1998

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

Weddingbee 2009

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 2008

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 2008

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 2009

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 Edward P. Lowry

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 2009