straitjackets

Maniacs are placed in straitjackets, not straight-jackets.

Discourse.net: Adobe Air: That's Not a License, It's a Straitjacket 2008

He wore a white T-shirt showing Van Halen in straitjackets; a black cotton vest; black Converse tennies; a leather friendship bracelet on one wrist and a large black leather watch on the other wrist.

GINNY BATES ON HALLOWEEN Maggie Jochild 2007

I have no idea if the straitjackets were the same as the ones used on those Houdini called "the murderous insane," but they probably were, just as the chains and locks used by the police to bind him in response to his taunts were probably unmodified.

NYT > Home Page By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN 2010

I have no idea if the straitjackets were the same as the ones used on those Houdini called "the murderous insane," but they probably were, just as the chains and locks used by the police to bind him in response to his taunts were probably unmodified.

NYT > Home Page By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN 2010

When I was a boy in the 1950s, psychiatric hospitals were familiarly called “loony bins,” a phrase evoking images of padded cells and straitjackets.

Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

The Bank of England governor, Mervyn King, continues to demand that banks be forced into much tougher risk-control straitjackets than those imposed by Basel III.

Not the Right Moment Patience Wheatcroft 2010

One day in 2005, Marissa Mayer was trying to explain why the looniness of Google was actually the crazy-like-a-fox variety and not the kind calling for straitjackets.

In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

Germany had initially indicated that it would be reluctant to knit tighter fiscal straitjackets just for euro-zone countries, for fear it could cause countries outside the euro, such as the U.K., to feel marginalized.

Europe at Crossroads David Gauthier-Villars 2011

I rather like your idea of young women having to put those old straitjackets on – nothing like some strenuous role play to be introduced to a new perspective!

Women’s History Month « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

When I was a boy in the 1950s, psychiatric hospitals were familiarly called “loony bins,” a phrase evoking images of padded cells and straitjackets.

Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011