Examples of 'straitjacket' in a sentence
Meaning of "straitjacket"
A straitjacket is a garment-like restraining device used to bind a person's arms to their body in order to restrain them, especially in psychiatric settings or for protection against self-harm
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- 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.
- Any situation seen as confining or restricting.
- To put someone into a straitjacket.
- To restrict the freedom of, either physically or psychologically.
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A straitjacket would fit you just right.
He broke through the straitjacket and bolted.
The straitjacket is purely chemical these days.
You are talking yourself right into a straitjacket.
I have a straitjacket if you think he will be dangerous.
Amazing the guy did not end up in a straitjacket.
Find a little straitjacket and calm down.
A straitjacket from which no one could escape.
The guidance is not intended to be seen as a straitjacket.
The straitjacket is a humane means of fixation or already.
It took three orderlies to get him in a straitjacket.
Put him in a straitjacket and give him an enema.
You can not dance in that straitjacket.
Change it for a straitjacket and order one for me.
And your dress is about as comfortable as a straitjacket.
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I will go get the straitjacket from the nurse.
They had to take her away in a straitjacket.
Your respectable straitjacket is not for me.
They finally took him away in a straitjacket.
The straitjacket was one of these treatments.
And then they strapped him in a straitjacket.
I was put in a straitjacket and taken to the psychopathic ward.
They would send a psychiatrist and a straitjacket.
Eagles on a straitjacket are not regulation uniform.
You have never done it without me or in a straitjacket before.
Put him straitjacket and lock it in the room.
Maybe the noose is better than a straitjacket.
That straitjacket escape was her big gimmick.
I am amazed the guy did not end up in a straitjacket.
The straitjacket is also a staple prop in stage magic.
I saw you get out of that straitjacket.
Tell them to send a straitjacket and a horse tranquilizer.
You each get a nice little straitjacket.
The famous straitjacket trunk escape.
Language fits over experience like a straitjacket.
This political straitjacket has become increasingly intolerable.
You would be immediately carried out in a straitjacket.
That straitjacket of aesthetic correctness has had backlashes.
But objectives that become a straitjacket do harm.
A straitjacket or a punch in the face.
Our legislative framework is not intended to be a straitjacket.
So should we put the straitjacket on me now.
Disallowing change of any kind would constitute a straitjacket.
Will take a witness in a straitjacket the wrong way.
It is a framework and is not designed to be a straitjacket.
You gotta take off the straitjacket and go home.
I guess we are lucky we are not dead or in a straitjacket.
Get her in a straitjacket and lock her in her room.
You are the one stuck in a straitjacket.
Second straitjacket to the left.
