Now he was like a man in a strait jacket.

"Washington would bring me home in a strait jacket if I even asked."

A student could not really grow in the strait jacket of "normal" education, but here it was different.

Why bother with more than a cell and a strait jacket?

I'm going to buy you a new strait jacket for Christmas."

But 99p Stores has found other ways to escape the pricing strait jacket.

"One man became unreasonable today, so we put him in a strait jacket.

Nor find the weight of flesh so like a galling strait jacket.

What you are criticising (quite rightly) is the strait jacket of the national curriculum.

The robe, without his knowing it, had become a strait jacket that held him close and snug.

Now, they arrive at least once a week, sometimes wrapped in body-length strait jackets.

I'm going to get out of this anachronistic strait jacket, take my shoes off, and have a long, tall drink.

"Maybe you want some more strait jacket," he sneered.

Bond could just move his fingers and his head, but otherwise he had less freedom of movement than in a strait jacket.

"He spent six months in a strait jacket!

I've already been stuck in a strait jacket for the past 3 months, and I was hoping you'd be the right person to pull it off.

He was thinking, too, of Cranston's plight, laced in a strait jacket for another night.

Find himself strapped in a strait jacket, lying in a padded cell?

It was like fighting against a strait jacket; her struggles only served to tire her out.

"They just put him in a strait jacket and strapped him into his bunk.

I freed myself from the antiquated strait jacket of his verbose speech patterns.

Harry recognized Cranston in the strait jacket, so worn out with his struggles that he was sound asleep.

Kralik has the chance to break out of his strait jacket while Blair is getting his pills and water.

The poor devil immediately commenced to gasp for breath as if he were being compressed in a strait jacket.

It happens to be a padded cell where our friend Cranston sleeps in a strait jacket every night."

Pray do not put me in a strait waistcoat.

Tell them to take off the strait waistcoat.

They put us in strait waistcoats!

I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait waistcoats.

It was a strait waistcoat.

Jack Sheppard himself couldn't get free from the strait waistcoat that keeps him restrained, and he's chained to the wall in the padded room.

We saw an elaborate arrangement round his trunk, a sort of canvas strait waistcoat which went from his armpits to his thighs.

He was still in the strait waistcoat and in the padded room, but the suffused look had gone from his face, and his eyes had something of their old pleading.

At first he was silent in his fighting, but as we began to master him, and the attendants were putting a strait waistcoat on him, he began to shout, 'I'll frustrate them!

I mistrust these quiet moods of of his, so I have given the attendant a hint to look closely after him, and to have a strait waistcoat ready in case of need.

They then were advancing into the room as he spoke, with fetters in their hands (strait waistcoats being then little known or used), and showed, by their frightful countenances and gestures, no unwillingness to apply them.

At the first sign of delirium the Willises had been sent for, and they had come immediately and locked the King in a room and clapped him in a strait waistcoat and given him strong, purging medicines.

Send me away how you will and where you will, send keepers with me with whips and chains, let them take me in a strait waistcoat, manacled and leg-ironed, even to gaol, but let me go out of this.