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Straitjacket meaning
A jacket-like garment with very long sleeves which can be secured in place, thus preventing the wearer from moving his or her arms. Often used in psychiatric hospitals to prevent patients from injuring themselves or others. | Any situation seen as confining or restricting.
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Suspended straitjacket escape One of Houdini's most popular publicity stunts was to have himself strapped into a regulation straitjacket and suspended by his ankles from a tall building or crane.
But No 10 also appeared to rebuff Ms Truss’s suggestion that the UK’s “fiscal policy is in a straitjacket” and that a “worrying economic consensus” is threatening growth.
I will admit modifications only after they have spent at least a couple of years in a psychiatric institution, restrained within a straitjacket and receiving periodic electroshock treatment.
No chance was missed to sabotage the opportunities opened up by release from the EU straitjacket.
Pepper’s counsel, Niall Ó hUiginn, told the court on Monday his client was in “a bit of a straitjacket” as the court does not have the power to alter PIAs before approving them.
I think it’s shaking free of an institutional structure, or maybe even an institutional straitjacket, that’s no longer working, maybe hasn’t been for some time.
Straitjacket's 2025 calendar also includes John Turier and Nicola Hensel, Michael Bell and Claire Martin, Braddon Snape and James Drinkwater (they will show collaborative work for the first time).
For World of Wizards on Canadian television, Randi was filmed suspended above the raging Niagara Falls while wriggling out of a straitjacket bound in chains.
He added: “You cannot straitjacket a multinational country and diverse regions into a centralised unitary state as they’ve been trying to do.
Now that the country seems to be in a straitjacket as a result of not been perceptive early enough, how do we now rescue ourselves from this threatening inferno?
They argue that failure to escape this intellectual straitjacket produces biases which yield poor predictions of and explanations for non-Western behavior.
And while Fitzgerald’s detractors accuse him of employing a defensive structure that restricts attacking play and places skilful players in a straitjacket, that’s not exactly true either.
A smart city of the sort that Sidewalk Labs proposes turns this surveillance-and-inference system into a pervasive straitjacket that wraps around everyone who sets foot on the public street.
When you’re on suicide watch, they put you in this white smock, a straitjacket.
Disney champion and filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein saw Mickey’s cartoon form as a liberating force for change, loosening the straitjacket of modern American culture while ironically being one of its defining forms.
Among the few outside Mad items available in its first 40 years were cufflinks, a T-shirt designed like a straitjacket (complete with lock), and a small ceramic Alfred E. Neuman bust.
But we are in a straitjacket, having to accept one or the other, when often some intermediate form would be better.
Disappearing Tricks by Matthew Solomon, 2010, p. 95. It featured a loose narrative designed to showcase several of Houdini's famous escapes, including his straitjacket and underwater handcuff escapes.
He freed China from the straitjacket of its Confucian past, but the bright Red future he promised turned out to be a sterile purgatory.
Houdini escaped after being strapped in a straitjacket, sealed in a casket, and then buried in a large tank filled with sand.