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ball and chain
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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.
Berlusconi Announces May-December Engagement | Barbie Latza Nadeau | December 17, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTWhat a ghastly prison marriage was, he thought, a thing as hostile to the free human spirit as an iron ball-and-chain.
The Brimming Cup | Dorothy Canfield FisherYesterday the President remitted the sentence of a poor lad, sentenced to ball-and-chain for six months, for cowardice, etc.
A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital | John Beauchamp Jones
I say your old rag of a Constitution is a ball-and-chain on your national leg.
Cavanagh: Forest Ranger | Hamlin Garland
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