Strait-jacket

Definition

strait-jacket /'streÇtdʒækÇt/ n ၁။ (႐ူးသြပ္သူကို) မလႈပ္ႏိုင္ေအာင္ ခ်ည္ေႏွာင္ ႏိုင္ရန္ လက္ပါေသာအက်ႌ။ ၂။ ( derog ) ခ်ဳပ္ခ်ယ္မႈ။ the strait-jacket of repressive taxation.

Examples

1. ‘The poisoned workers were taken from the plant in straitjackets
2. hallucinating
3. convulsing and screaming.’
4. ‘He once swam a mile with his hands and feet handcuffed together and did 12 lengths in a straitjacket.’
5. ‘It's one of the more panic-inducing screen sequences in memory: In a hospital morgue
6. a mental patient is trussed in a straitjacket and locked away in the airless dark of a body storage drawer.’
7. ‘I told Paul C. that there were no straitjackets or handcuffs involved in that performance
8. at all.’
9. ‘And we were taken to be strapped together in an all-in-one straitjacket.’
10. ‘My dad asked whether this man should merely be removed from office
11. or whether he should be placed into a straitjacket immediately after.’
12. ‘For good behaviour
13. I was allowed to go around without a straightjacket and even visit with some of the more sane patients.’
14. ‘Shirui
15. himself
16. was the one who strapped Lhee into a straightjacket and threw him into the mental hospital.’
17. ‘A quick strong jerk and the straitjacket burst up high into the air.’
18. ‘The pupils are hard at work and Blaine will be treated to a display including a lampshade which induces insanity
19. a multi-coloured straitjacket and a speech by each pupil explaining their work.’
20. ‘The empty sleeves are wrapped around the figure and stapled like a straitjacket.’
21. ‘She was known for choosing the most difficult assignments
22. caring for the terminally ill and even the deranged patients that often were brought in straitjackets.’
23. ‘Then he used them to make mini straitjackets for the twins.’
24. ‘You probably want to know what it is like in a mental ward; you've never been there
25. and the only image you can conjure is what the movies show you: antiseptic white with straitjackets and rubber rooms.’
26. ‘Sometimes they put me in there without a straitjacket if I'm not too violent.’
27. ‘I thought of this as the men in white suits put the white straitjacket on me and shepherded me into a white vehicle leading me to a white building with shiny white linoleum floors
28. white walls and indeed white everywhere.’
29. ‘He was on a gurney
30. all wrapped up in a straitjacket and his feet were chained together.’
31. ‘The author regularly seems less like a journalist interviewing a subject than a therapist who has foolishly removed her patient's straitjacket so they can head off for a jaunt in the jungle.’
32. ‘The treatments comprised straightjackets
33. seclusion
34. insulin shock and electric shock treatment
35. that was it.’
36. ‘After the treatment
37. we see her standing dazed in a straitjacket
38. muttering unintelligibly
39. her hair standing on end
40. sparks flying from her head.’