What does "Ivory Tower" mean in a metaphorical sense?

An ivory tower is a metaphorical place—or an atmosphere—where people are happily cut off from the rest of the world in favor of their own pursuits, usually mental and esoteric ones.

2: "jesse kept on, his voice rising in anger."

4: "andy stormed out angrily."

i answered the question and it said these two were right : )

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whatever is after like is what is being compared they are comparing bumping into you like they are scared to catch germs you have and to you being contagious