How To Use Ball and chain In A Sentence

  • Getting something done via the call centres is like wading through treacle wearing flippers and ball and chain. The Revolving Door System. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • I agree with our Cheer for Community, once again towering over its Thursday comedy peers by mixing the snarky and the sweet, zeroing in on the real love story here: Jeff's character-building affection for his misfit study group, or in Professor Duncan's words "the six-headed ball and chain. Matt's TV Week in Review
  • You've been nothing but a ball and chain of heartache and hurt hanging around my neck for too many Godforsaken years.
  • Like a couple of convicts bound together by a ball and chain, neither could betray the other without exposing himself.
  • You may be surprised to find that she doesn't want to shackle you with a ball and chain.
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  • New technologies can turn from status symbol to ball and chain overnight.
  • This belief was like a ball and chain for the allied war effort.
  • The responsibility was a ball and chain around my ankle.
  • At which point she unlocked her ball and chain.
  • The responsibility was a ball and chain around my ankle.
  • From Little Brother's "Slow It Down" to Foreign Exchange's "Valediction" to the track above, "Ball and Chain," from his solo project, Phonte knows how to breathe new life into the term "love-hate relationship. Stacia L. Brown: 5 Contemporary Soul Cyranos
  • the belle of half a dozen balls who took a thousand calls curtained, or otherwise is getting wed hitched shackled now ball and chain where once was piece of fluff is it enough, she wonders to really really like? Archive 2007-02-01
  • I left my ball and chain at home tonight.
  • They actually think, gasp..... that we would be better off without the ball and chain we call the European Union around our ankles. Archive 2006-04-01
  • This belief was like a ball and chain for the allied war effort.
  • The lower-tech side of the business was seen as a ball and chain.
  • New technologies can turn from status symbol to ball and chain overnight.
  • A believer in strict discipline, he preferred forms of punishment like putting a prisoner in stocks or shackling him to a ball and chain.
  • The responsibility was a ball and chain around my ankle.
  • Even after he had clubbed it to death it was part of him, his ball and chain.
  • If her grandfather removed the ball and chain, he wrote, would she visit?
  • If her grandfather removed the ball and chain, he wrote, would she visit?
  • A believer in strict discipline, he preferred forms of punishment like putting a prisoner in stocks or shackling him to a ball and chain.
  • These lovely lovely things are the blocks from the black and batik swap - I swapped 12 nine inch blocks (the blessed ball and chain blocks) and three 18 inch blocks - so here's what I got in return - twelve nine inch blocks of an amazing variety and three 18 inch blocks, which I adore, especially the top left one, which is lovel. Archive 2007-04-01
  • Because there's no dirty great ball and chain to drag around, The Monsters get to punch home the point time after time without needing to worry if their hair looks good, or how they fit in.
  • And walked back to the hotel minus her ball and chain.
  • Instead of a boost, when John McCain hitched that ball and chain, Palin, to his campaign, we could practically hear the disgust of the middle class voters as they gave up all hope. Waldo Jaquith - A steady hand: Why voters are breaking for Obama.
  • The responsibility was a ball and chain around my ankle.

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