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ball and chain
noun as in burdensome restraint
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The former prime minister trades bunga-bunga for ball-and-chain as he announces engagement to 27-year-old Francesca Pascale.
From The Daily Beast
What a ghastly prison marriage was, he thought, a thing as hostile to the free human spirit as an iron ball-and-chain.
From Project Gutenberg
Yesterday the President remitted the sentence of a poor lad, sentenced to ball-and-chain for six months, for cowardice, etc.
From Project Gutenberg
I say your old rag of a Constitution is a ball-and-chain on your national leg.
From Project Gutenberg
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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