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birdcage liner

The New York Times used to be the Newspaper of Record. Now it's a birdcage liner.
by octopod April 20, 2006
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a fish inside a birdcage

Someone who has all the skills and knowledge to thrive, but due to circumstance, their surroundings, and the people and things their surrounded by, they will likely never live up to their potential. They will often feel inferior and insecure because they don’t seem to fit in, and don’t have the same abilities as their peers.

A fish has all the qualities and abilities to survive and thrive, but are helpless out of water, that’s where the saying is supposed to mean on a literal level, but on a figurative level it means someone who has skills and abilities that may be unconventional or less socially acceptable, and are pressured to fit a mold that doesn’t work for them.
Alice is a fish inside a birdcage. She has incredible potential, but she hangs around shitty people who don’t support her, and she keeps trying to fit in where she doesn’t truly belong.
by TallWhiteDude October 12, 2023
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birdcage

Term used to describe someone with a protruding sternum and a skeletal body type.

See also:
ashtray; carcass;
What's the matter with you birdcage?
by Brad February 26, 2004
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the birdcage

1 - A handjob, delivered through the boxers, usually in a situation in which the giver of the birdcage believes the recipient's genitals to be dirty or otherwise inadvisable to touch. A Chi-Phi-ism. Can be used as a verb.

2 - Metaphorically, anything unsatisfying or upsetting.

3 - A stock phrase, "Worse than a birdcage," used to connote extreme irritation.
1 - Man, this broad gave me the birdcage right on the dance floor. Sir!

2 - Those fucking cops were giving me the birdcage.

3 - The party was worse than a birdcage, bro, everyone was completely state.
by yt March 14, 2003
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Birdcage

The birdcage is when a guy has plans to chill with his friends but is then made to feel guilty to hang out with his woman.

Birdcage can also generally be a demanding girlfriend.
"Man, you coming out tonight?"
"Yeah, I'll be there..." --- phone rings---- "GOD DAMN BIRD CAGE!!!!!"

"What's Mike been up to recently?"
"I dunno, since his wings were clipped marriage he's really been birdcaged."
by The Festive Uncle Feaster September 4, 2009
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Birdcage

When your girlfriend owns the key to the cage that your dick lives in.
Help, I'm stuck in here. Let me out.

SOLID STEEL BIRDCAGE
by The Festive Uncle Feaster September 5, 2009
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Birdcage

A cell, prison, or anything that compares to one.
He's in big birdcage now, he's doing 20 to life in a federal penitentiary.
by Zed Numar July 15, 2021
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