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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a shackle" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a device that restricts movement, often in a metaphorical sense to describe something that limits freedom or progress.
Example: "The oppressive laws felt like a shackle on the citizens' rights and freedoms."
Alternatives: "a constraint" or "a limitation".
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It became a bit of a shackle".
It's not a shackle or a straightjacket.
Later on this unique perspective becomes a shackle, as the story needs to grow beyond her.
A shackle immediately brings to mind slavery and prisons; neither is very glamorous.
The police say she died of asphyxiation and was found with a shackle chain at her throat.
She makes a telling, counterintuitive point, batting away the notion that a steely heel is a shackle or a hobble.
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If he wasn't, he would not have used a shackle-like ankle cuff – with all of its implications.
In October 2007 she went undercover to film a kosher slaughterhouse in Uruguay that used a "shackle-and-hoist" slaughtering system: Cattle are chained by one leg and hoisted in the air to have their throats cut.
At another point, Mr. Trump painted a cinematic portrait of freeing a shackled United States.
But I still prefer it, warts and all, to a shackled and responsible one.
Come to Britain, under New Labour, and get yourself a shackled and tamed workforce.
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