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Impenetrable barrier
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iron curtain
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in reference to the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe, famously coined by Winston Churchill March 5, 1946, in speech at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, but it had been used earlier in this context (for example by U.S. bureaucrat Allen W. Dulles ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an impenetrable barrier to communication or information especially as imposed by rigid censorship and secrecy; used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the demarcation between democratic and communist countries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Iron Curtain is a comedy musical about the Soviet Union , with music by Stephen Weiner , lyrics by Peter Mills , and a book by Susan DiLallo .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A barrier made of iron in the theatre, lowered between the stage and the auditorium for safety or to prevent communication. 2 (context idiomatic English) Any impenetrable barrier.
Usage examples of iron curtain.
Anyway, What's certain is that Jennings was contacted within minutes of arriving at the hotel, told what had happened, and left in no doubt as to what lay in store for his wife and son if he didn't immediately follow them behind the iron curtain.
I explained by tapping the iron curtain over the shop window with one drumstick.
Political obstacles, the so-called Iron Curtain, forbade me to flee eastward.
When you think about it, Sean, it must be terrible for defenceless people behind the Iron Curtain to be subjected to such naked terror with no way for them to fight back.
From what I heard later, Georgiadou, under his respectable merchant trading cloak in Adderley Street, was the biggest rogue south of the Congo in organising the smuggling of uncut diamonds from South West Africa, Sierra Leone and West Africa through Tangier mainly to Iron Curtain countries.
If they were in anything that had the speed of an average airliner, they would have needed only another half hour's flying to cross the Iron Curtain.
Among the matters of interest are inevi-tably any emotional or social involvement with personnel from behind the Iron Curtain-or anywhere else, for that matter.