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Chinese wall

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Chinese wall
n.
A barrier, especially one that seriously hinders communication or understanding: "still believe a Chinese wall can exist between public and private selves" Gail Sheehy.
[After the Great Wall of China.]
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Noun1.Chinese wallChinese Wall - a fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC; it averages 6 meters in width
Great Wall, Great Wall of China
Cathay, China, Communist China, mainland China, People's Republic of China, PRC, Red China - a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world


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The cheap prices of its commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians' intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate.
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