The phrase "a straitjacket over" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe a restrictive situation or condition, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The new regulations felt like a straitjacket over our creative processes, limiting our ability to innovate."
Alternatives: "a constraint on" or "a limitation imposed by".
There is a fine stunt tradition in New York -- the great Houdini hung upside down in a straitjacket over Broadway.
There was a hint of lockdown, of them squeezing the space in midfield and throwing a straitjacket over Neymar, Luis Suárez and Lionel Messi.
When he was manacled and submerged underwater in a giant milk can, or suspended upside down in a straitjacket over a city street, the audience held its breath until he set himself free.
It begins with Teller suspended upside down in a straitjacket over a bed of spikes; it ends up with Penn on a darkened stage eating fire and talking about how at the Franklin County Fair he always felt himself drawn into the sideshow tent to see the freaks and fire-eaters while his high-school buddies waited outside.
But plot needn't be a straitjacket, rather a sturdy skeleton over which the beautiful drapery of dialogue, characterisation, period and location can be shown off to best advantage.
It was not as spectacular a stunt as, say, the time he extricated himself from a straitjacket while hanging upside down over Niagra Falls, but it made his point: namely that homeopathic remedies are quackery.
By validating the revolution and pledging early free elections, the Shah presumably hoped to put a straitjacket on the soldiers even as he handed over power to them.
** By validating the revolution and pledging early free elections, the Shah presumably hoped to put a straitjacket on the soldiers even as he handed over power to them.
Young Journeyman Jack found an enigma wrapped in a conundrum-in-a-straitjacket.
There's a straitjacket number, but those trying to escape are not suspended over a bed of spikes.
And a foot-high dressmaker's form strapped in a straitjacket evokes both Houdini's death-defying escape acts and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".
