straightjacket

/ ˈstreɪtˌdʒækɪt /

noun

1. a less common spelling of straitjacket

Example Sentences

Barker added that the Treasury had "imposed a straightjacket" on the government.

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Colleen Dolan, an education expert with expertise in Stephen King film adaptations, tells Salon, “B***hery gets them out of the straightjacket of respectability, what Betty Friedan had called the ‘feminine mystique.’

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But instead, Jabeur's old-school style - she smiles as she crafts points with spins and slice - was tied up in a straightjacket of nerves.

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"There's this dark cloud over us, and I describe it to people that I am farming in a straightjacket."

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Financial markets have treated the constitutional spending cap as Brazil’s principal fiscal anchor in recent years, but politicians across the spectrum criticize it as a budgetary straightjacket during economic crises.

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