If he wasn't, he would not have used a shackle-like ankle cuff – with all of its implications.
These had been especially created by the designer Jeremy Scott, with an extra special detail on them: a bright orange plastic cuff, designed to look like a shackle, with a chain connecting the trainer and the cuff, on each ankle.
This new shackle, a shackle of constant connection with the people in your life, is, like most technologies, neutral.
A left-wing MP added: "The party's defence review will come, but it will be evidence based, not a shackled review like the government reviews that have left us with soldiers at risk and aircraft carriers without planes".
Stinking thinking is like a shackle that holds us back from living our best life.
It became a bit of a shackle".
So why is it suddenly a shackle, then?
So HP sheds a shackle and, with Samsung's manufacturing power, that shackle becomes another link in that manufacturer's golden chain.
If it is the basic lock with a shackle, just pull up the shackle at the top of the lock.
And when she gets her revenge on him by tying his shoelaces together, he is forced to execute the dizzying moves of farce by hopping around like a shackled kangaroo, something that Jamie Glover does with prodigious physical skill.
And though I've never crossed paths with a man in shackles, I like to think I'd have the panache to pull off a blasé nod.
