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View definitions for ball and chain

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.

What a ghastly prison marriage was, he thought, a thing as hostile to the free human spirit as an iron ball-and-chain.

Yesterday the President remitted the sentence of a poor lad, sentenced to ball-and-chain for six months, for cowardice, etc.

I say your old rag of a Constitution is a ball-and-chain on your national leg.

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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ball and chain, such as: burden, encumbrance, hindrance, impediment, restriction, and millstone.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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