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Iron curtain   /ˈaɪərn kˈərtən/   Listen
Iron curtain

noun
1.
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.





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"Iron curtain" Quotes from Famous Books



... tolerated hard blows, but courted them; "alacer virtute militum, et letus quoties aut cassidi sue aut clypeo gravior ictus incideret. Laudabat quippe ferientes, hortabaturque ut auderent." When one of our theatres let down an iron curtain upon the stage as a means of insulating the audience from any fire amongst the scenery, and sent men to prove the strength of this curtain by playing upon it with sledge-hammers in the sight and hearing of the public, who would not have laughed at the hollowness ...
— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey


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