Noun : Conventional attitudes can be a straitjacket, preventing original thinking. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : Her ambition was straitjacketed by her family. From Dictionary.com.
It might be a looney bin, the only difference between a lab coat and a straightjacket is the location of the sleeves …. From Wordnik.com. [Would You Become Someone Else To Achieve Your Dreams?] Reference
But its also a kind of straightjacket that may discourage the kind of discourse that is capable of persuasion. From Wordnik.com. [Professor John McGinnis on originalism.] Reference
Moreover, the Gold Standard of the 1930s, which we long ago abandoned, acted like a kind of straightjacket on monetary policies. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Sachs knocks it out of the park] Reference
We must prevent plans from beginning a straightjacket. From Wordnik.com. [MONCADA BARRACKS ANNIVERSARY SPEECH] Reference
The constitution is a straightjacket, it's sort of like a theater. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 25, 2006] Reference
If that's crazy, sign me up for a straightjacket and a Thorazine drip. From Wordnik.com. [Barry Bortnick: Thoughts on an American Hero] Reference
Think of a crucial missing word as a kind of invisible straightjacket. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Engelhardt: Missing Word, Missing World] Reference
But so too the United Nations has been from the straightjacket of the Cold. From Wordnik.com. [The Future of South Africa] Reference
At worst, the bureaucrats will send straightjacket-wielding thugs to your home. From Wordnik.com. [David Quigg: Abolish the Nazi-Commie Nightmare of Public Firefighting] Reference
They might have to carry him out of there in a straightjacket after a few weeks. From Wordnik.com. [New Iraq Proposal Would Allow Dems To Keep Standing Up To Bush] Reference
Our freedoms and rights are unconstitutionally licensed to straightjacket status. From Wordnik.com. [Move over Apocalypto - America has you beat.] Reference
It didn't feel like I was being relegated to taking a shower in a straightjacket. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Dreams ofReality, 11] Reference
In this way, he had come to find the frontbench to be an ideological straightjacket. From Wordnik.com. [John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...] Reference
A more personally responsive health service, free from the straightjacket if targets. From Wordnik.com. [Unspun Brown] Reference
But so too the United Nations has been freed from the straightjacket of the Cold War. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa's Future Foreign Policy] Reference
But right now, LA, like every other big city, is trapped in a fiscal straightjacket. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Dreier: LA Magazine's Failure: Irresponsible Journalism] Reference
I'd feel like I was wearing a knitted straightjacket and bouncing off the knitted walls. From Wordnik.com. [Amy Holman: Culture Purls] Reference
Banks were put into a straightjacket whose constraints began to be loosened only in the 1970s. From Wordnik.com. [George Soros: A Plan for Economic Recovery] Reference
You can look forward to a life of drooling on your straightjacket and electroshock on Thursdays. From Wordnik.com. [saru-san Diary Entry] Reference
Naylor recognized that ordinary people are multi-talented, often put into a conceptual straightjacket. From Wordnik.com. [Anne Naylor: How To Successfully Create Jobs With The Industrial Village] Reference
Republicans could summon many witnesses to testify about the impact of this regulatory straightjacket. From Wordnik.com. [Putting the Brakes on ObamaCare] Reference
Houdini sometimes worked upside down, but was trying to get out of a straightjacket as fast as possible. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2008] Reference
How many layers of fallacies are needed to realize that fiscal straightjacket on a government level is a myth?. From Wordnik.com. [Planetary Bankruptcy] Reference
In the Persian Gulf, America's men and women in uniform tightened the straightjacket around a dangerous tyrant. From Wordnik.com. [President Remarks In Camp Lejeune North Carolina] Reference
There's also the concern that we'll put the industry in a straightjacket (by endorsing only existing equipment). From Wordnik.com. [Transcript: Health Info Tech Coordinator David Blumenthal] Reference
Plausibility arguments can especially become a straightjacket in areas in which current understanding is primitive. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Larry Dossey: Spirituality, Healing and Science] Reference
If you would get out of your little straightjacket world once and awhile, you wouldn't say the silly things you do. by. From Wordnik.com. [Swine Flu-- Normal or Malignant?] Reference
She proceeds to tell me that I am her Princess, her Phantom Limb, her Second Sun, her straightjacket in this world of insanity. From Wordnik.com. [whitehelmet Diary Entry] Reference
This is why it is so critical that Europeans get out of the EMU straightjacket and allow government deficit spending to do its job. From Wordnik.com. [Marshall Auerback: Repeat After Me: The USA Does Not Have a "Greece Problem"] Reference
And this, also, I think, will straightjacket Mr. Arafat, who frankly, in my judgment, no longer is a true peace partner for Israel. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 21, 2002] Reference
The er staff wrapped him in a “papoose,” which was more of a straightjacket and nowhere near as cute and harmless as it sounds. From Wordnik.com. [purplecigar Diary Entry] Reference
Instead, they would be shunted into health insurance plans under the straightjacket of whatever the government decides is a "basic" plan. From Wordnik.com. [Beware Obamacare's Fine Print] Reference
We've had to resort to the Swaddle Me thing with velcro, so we can straightjacket her torso while leaving her legs free to thrash around. From Wordnik.com. [Slice, Serrate, Squash, Subsume and Slag] Reference
The resignation puts a straightjacket on Prime Minister Romano Prodi, whose administration relies on a single-vote majority in the Senate. From Wordnik.com. [Scandal Threatens] Reference
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