ball and chain
Example Sentences
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Playing up to his criminal past, he attended one photoshoot at the club wearing a mock prison uniform with a fake ball and chain tied around his ankle.
From BBC
For the bacteria providing the transport, says one of the study’s authors, “it’s like a ball and chain around your ankle.”
From Science Magazine
These handcuffed honeys have literally become each other’s old ball and chain.
From Fox News
Ask them if they are in the Stone Age where that old trope about "the ball and chain" still applies?
From Washington Post
But in times like this, these same economics forces can be a ball and chain that make its governing bodies slow to respond, sometimes dangerously so.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
