Ч50

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a person who immerses himself in narrow-minded interests, who is afraid of anything new, who isolates himself from the outside world
man (who lives) in a cocoon (a shell).
Title of a short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898, commonly translated as "The Man in a Case."

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