straitjacket
IPA: strˈeɪtdʒækʌt
noun
- A jacket-like garment with very long sleeves which can be secured in place, thus preventing the wearer from moving his or her arms. Often used in psychiatric hospitals to prevent patients from injuring themselves or others.
- (figurative) Any situation seen as confining or restricting.
verb
- (literally) To put someone into a straitjacket.
- (by extension) To restrict the freedom of, either physically or psychologically.
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Examples of "straitjacket" in Sentences
- It's a template, not a straitjacket.
- But words are a terrible straitjacket.
- SNO is common sense, not a straitjacket.
- But this rule shouldn't be a straitjacket.
- Otherwise they will become a straitjacket.
- A straitjacket is a garment used for restraint.
- Camisole is also a clinical term for a straitjacket.
- I mean, it's the best kind of long-term straitjacket.
- Otherwis known as a straitjacket, she added to herself.
- The Tick is in a padded room, confined by a straitjacket.
- Any universal statement is liable to be a straitjacket or a cosset.
- Pinned to his straitjacket was a tag saying paranoid schizophrenic.
- At the end of the video, we see Snow in a straitjacket, staring at the viewer.
- It was not this so-called straitjacket that is the cause of today's euro crisis.
- Too often, I fear, the straitjacket is what ends up coming across from the opera stage.
- Of course, all this is - as George Osborne put it recently - a "straitjacket" on whoever governs our country next.
- •Free the police and courts from the politically correct straitjacket which is stopping them from doing their jobs properly;
- He would come into a big city and hang himself upside down in a straitjacket from a skyscraper - but not just any building, usually the one that housed the major newspaper.
- He condemned the increasing "straitjacket" of centrally imposed sentencing guidelines and said that the police were increasingly meting out justice "behind closed doors" by issuing cautions in criminal cases which would once have been placed before the courts.