But you wonder how even the sane keep from losing their minds when you step into a cell—or rather a cage—at Graterford.
It is empty, the door swung open—perhaps the bird has already flown, or perhaps the cage awaits its next inhabitant.
When I first heard about the sport, I assumed that it was a “no holds barred” cage match where pretty much anything goes.
Two men, literally in a cage, were attacking each other while the pastor and his friends cheered.
Everything in the cage will be programmed from moment to moment.
After the incident of the birds and cage, my sagacity was for some time at fault.
Stevie prowled round the table like an excited animal in a cage.
I opened the door of his cage and, snatching the puppy, fled.
Squirrels shouldn't swim, and if I can catch it I will put it in a cage.
He paced the chamber like a beast in a cage, hissing out the words in his anger.
early 13c., from Old French cage "cage, prison; retreat, hideout" (12c.), from Latin cavea "hollow place, enclosure for animals, coop, hive, stall, dungeon, spectators' seats in the theater" (cf. Italian gabbia "basket for fowls, coop;" see cave (n.)).
1570s, from cage (n.). Related: Caged; caging.
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: a big cage star/ the cage standing
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