Straightjacket vs Straitjacket - What's the difference?
straightjacket | straitjacket | Alternative forms |
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.
A metaphor used to describe a range of situations seen as (unpleasantly?) confining or restricting.
* 2009 , Michael Giffin, Quadrant , November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 99:
(literally) To put someone into a .
(by extension) To restrict the freedom of, either physically or psychologically.
Straightjacket is an alternative form of straitjacket.
As nouns the difference between straightjacket and straitjacket
is that straightjacket is while straitjacket is 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.As a verb straitjacket is
(literally) to put someone into a.straitjacket
English
(wikipedia straitjacket)Alternative forms
* strait jacket, strait-jacket, straightjacketNoun
(en noun)- [I]f we remain in one discipline, we remain in a straitjacket ; an adequate theory of language evolution requires a lot of interdisciplinary work.