have your hands tied

have your ˈhands tiedto be unable to do what you want to do because of rules, promises, etc.受到制约I really wish I could help but my hands are tied.我的确想帮忙，但却多有不便。

• batavians
• ethnographist
• quinidines
• noble art
• sit about/around
• storage cycle
• teemer
• law Latin
• Cumacea
• purple-heart
• iliopsoas
• hand something on
• after-only experiment
• silver streak
• groundman
• C.Q.
• piddling
• port captain
• score a point
• creationisms
• modificatory
• in silhouette
• bring sb to the verge of
• rate at
• C horizon
• tie in knots
• by the job
• pelerine
• analogue computer
• pycnidia
• syl-
• write sb ↔ in
• key of a cipher (或 romance)
• drawers
• ungrammatically
• metric horsepower
• leaf cushion
• in poor health
• fetishists
• the thrill of the chase / hunt
• D.E.
• low-technology
• Belinurus
• Mexico, Gulf of
• gas-deviation factor
• constrainer
• rodlet
• astrogators
• depigmentations
• grand-stand player
• sweet music
• firewarden
• weedier
• call sb/sth↔off
• prominencies
• abode
• demonetisations
• ornithorhynchuses
• (not) look yourself
• Hinduized
• Iricized
• legal duty
• brownie point
• arrestments
• Platonistic
• invected
• cystic fibrosis
• Procrustean
• salt-box
• slattings
• stubble-covered
• antidrug
• hyperbatically
• tuned filter
• without regard to
• suprapersonal
• brigaded
• chlorosulfonic acid
• overperform
• odonatas
• spirit levels
• bluely
• polyphonist
• swankily
• autocratic
• predating
• straight from the shoulder
• pathomorphologic
• x
• sailboarders
• lamarckisms
• mussiest
• allyl bromide
• butty-gang
• red admirals
• red rice
• keep books
• double-nickel
• sob stories
• cooee