Translations for „strait-jacket“ in the English » Polish Dictionary

strait-jacket [ˈstreɪtˌdʒækɪt] N

strait-jacket

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English

Your go-to phrase should be a confused and bewildered look (not too bewildered, you don't want to leave the country in a strait-jacket).

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With very rare exceptions, everybody seemed to me only fit for the strait-jacket.

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He burst from an uneasy sleep into a frenzy so violent it took four orderlies to strait-jacket him.

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It suggested the strait-jacket that her great-grandmother must have worn.

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And the old game, supposedly, in a tactical strait-jacket?

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Research has shown that some men re-interpret and expand what it means to be a man in order to subtly un-hook themselves from the strait-jacket variety of masculinity.

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It is equally trite that the concept of natural justice can neither be put in a strait-jacket nor is it a general rule of universal application.

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