ball and chain

ball and chain

• • [美国英语](系在犯人脚上的)球镣(铁球和链子)，系有金属球的脚链
  • [美国俚语]拖累，(繁重的)遏制，心理上的约束，累赘，限制，障碍；束缚行动的事物
  • [美国俚语]妻子，老婆，累赘娘们，包袱[丈夫常用的戏谑语]

• keep (sb) off sth
• karter
• smart bomb
• vertiginousness
• gemeinschaften
• ARV
• Alabama River
• anterior to
• Pecksniffery
• c'est la vie
• succinctest
• Nashe, Thomas
• orthostatai
• psychoprison
• heeders
• lookit
• put sb through sth
• uropod
• in the nick of time
• soft limit
• Christianizing
• sift wheat from chaff
• a storm of applause
• rundown line
• surtax
• Tarpeian rock
• steel traps
• prepg
• fundamentalities
• Egyptian Mau
• ring true/hollow/false
• snap out of it
• KC-10
• projet
• historicise
• work up to
• epiploon
• musettes
• out of work
• khis
• begging
• Farsi, Farsee
• balance in hand
• if at all
• laboratorial
• Orel
• cocciferous
• rescues
• ex facie
• weekly
• mandir
• axillae
• monastic
• cata-condensed polycyclic
• front of house
• lithologies
• vituperating
• Chinese Turkestan
• to someone's taste
• very much the other way
• ethnarchy
• threonines
• resin ducts
• erethism
• flank steak
• the freedom of the city
• tuned
• Cerberus
• carry off the palm
• homomorphs
• seizors
• interconvertible
• shanks's pony
• sopaipilla
• hoverbarge
• secularizers
• all in a twitter
• dithio-
• jet-black
• Elizabethan age
• keening
• full-width search
• epiderm-
• fibres
• ladyfying
• sick benefit
• tessellar
• Langobard
• swatter
• dynamic fluidity
• above
• in view
• hare
• Down syndrome
• cinematizing
• sociologistic
• Cook's tours
• nondepositional unconformity
• professed nun
• derma-