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Trapped behind bars, literal or otherwise, with the door visibly out of reach.
means Confined within an enclosure, or by extension restricted and unable to move or act freely.
from From Latin cavea, a hollow or stall for animals, which gave French cage and then the verb caged, the state of being put in one.
Spirit sensePeople feel caged by jobs, not just bars.
Cage matchWrestling weaponized the word for spectacle.
SongbirdsCaged ones inspired centuries of freedom metaphors.