squirrel cage
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The attainment of Nirvana allows us finally to step away from what one writer called "the squirrel cage of birth and rebirth" and enter into oneness with the cosmos.
From Time Magazine Archive
The animal is placed inside a big squirrel cage which revolves when the creature runs.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is the girl whirled around in a squirrel cage of pointless weekly and Sunday engagements who is oppressed and mastered by her lack of freedom.
From A Girl's Student Days and After by Woolley, Mary Emma
"I wish I could catch him and put him in my squirrel cage."
From The Tale of Sandy Chipmunk by Bailey, Arthur Scott
It's like going round in a squirrel cage.
From Women in Love by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
