Sentence examples for a straight jacket from inspiring English sources

In effect, it was a straight jacket.

It's like putting an octopus in a straight jacket.

There's still huge stigma surrounding mental health, fuelled in no small way by the prevailing media stereotype that all mentally ill people are either dangerous or entirely deranged and need to be dragged away in a straight jacket.

Viscerally, Roosevelt understood gold was a straight jacket in terms of fiscal and monetary stimulus.

Honestly, surprised I wasn't given a straight jacket for Christmas that year.

Not having agency is like being in a straight jacket, literally or figuratively.

The NPD have some good ideas, but they also have more than their fair share of off-the-deep-end, out-to-lunch, lock-'em-in-a-straight-jacket ideas.

Often, politicians and governments try to force us into a straight-jacket of 'one size fits all' whether in education, healthcare or lifestyle.

A more moderate senator, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, also opposed the bill, saying in a Twitter message that "the Boehner proposal, no matter how well-intentioned, will be a straight-jacket on real spending reform".

Justin McMurray, Somewhere's co-founder (formerly of the UK agency madebymany), says "the static nature of CVs and LinkedIn profiles act like a straight-jacket.

But it's more of a psycho-biological set of training wheels glued to a straight-jacket.