Sentence examples for put on the straitjacket from inspiring English sources

If there's no gold to be had, why put on the straitjacket?

The Washington consensus reigned supreme: persuade governments to put on "the golden straitjacket", in Tom Friedman's phrase, and prosperity would follow.Today big government is back with a vengeance: not just as a brute fact, but as a vigorous ideology.

But Bolivia, like Argentina, really put on what Thomas L. Friedman, the Times columnist, calls "the golden straitjacket" of liberalized economic policies.

As for theatergoers for whom a return to the fraught home fronts of the '50s feels like putting on a straitjacket, there's always "Cry-Baby," an adaptation of John Waters's 1990 movie about how the rock 'n' roll spirit rips apart staid old Baltimore in 1954.

Artistic directors are caught in a financial straitjacket and a creative catch-22: how do you put on new work, in the main house, while also keeping your audience?

Put on the yukata.

Put on the shirt.

Put on the gas.

Put on the petticoat.

Put on the brakes.

Put on the pants.