straitjacket
Example Sentences
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It cemented his reputation as a magician who can escape any political straitjacket.
From New York Times
During the Victorian age, language was forced into a straitjacket of right or wrong on both sides of the Atlantic.
From Washington Post
“Southern Baptists have always been more concerned about distributing life jackets to people who are drowning than straitjackets,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times
Hoover Dam made the modern West, but also confined it in a straitjacket.
From Los Angeles Times
The problem is that in doing so, the six-justice conservative majority imposed a history-based test — a straitjacket, really — for assessing the constitutionality of gun laws.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
