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Jimmy Hung
2021-11-16 04:11
Shackle (someone or something) with (something) informal verb phrase
To put shackles or some similar kind of restraint on someone or an animal in order to fetter or confine them or it
The tiger must be shackled with metal chains.
The police shackled the criminal with handcuffs.
To constrain or prevent one with some constrictive or burdensome obligation
My parents shacked me with burdensome responsibilities.
They were shackled with poverty.
1. To constrain one's freedom
2. To hold someone firmly by tying them
The verb "shackle" should be conjugated according to its tense. This idiom is frequently used in passive structures.
Do you see anything wrong?
Someone who is totally bad at doing something.
Mary really can't sing for toffee.
