| It's as though there's a ball and chain effect with things you really care about. |
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| You've been nothing but a ball and chain of heartache and hurt hanging around my neck for too many Godforsaken years. |
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| With force stabilization, the Army is set to cast off the ball and chain and completely transform how it mans units. |
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| Too often debt burden becomes a ball and chain for student borrowers after graduation. |
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| I know I have responsibilities of my own, but they no longer seem to anchor me down like the ball and chain that was my past. |
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| Into this churning social dynamo steps a group of idealistic immigrants, dragging a ball and chain of old-world sorrows. |
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| It's like a noose, it's like a ball and chain around the U.S. economy's foot or neck, or wherever the heck it is. |
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| Now I'm serving time in a Lincoln County Jail for armed robbery, wearing a striped ensemble with a ball and chain around my ankle. |
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| Drag yourself away from that ball and chain that is your VCR and TV and get thee to the rep house. |
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| A believer in strict discipline, he preferred forms of punishment like putting a prisoner in stocks or shackling him to a ball and chain. |
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| The second thief watched in shocked as the ball and chain wrapped around his ankles before colliding into his right shin. |
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| He untangled himself from the ball and chain he had on his arm and walked over to her. |
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| On the train on the way there, we saw a man with a ball and chain attached to his leg. |
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| They're bringing it back to the days when they made you wear stripes and now a chain, a ball and chain. |
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| Any other way of living would be like having a ball and chain tied to your ankle. |
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| Petey was about as much help as a ball and chain attached to her leg, and so it was probably better for him to stay locked away. |
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| She grabbed both of Mazing's wrists and held her still while Kat dragged the ball and chain and used that to tie Mazing's wrists together. |
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| The reporters here were drawing on the stereotype of the wife as ball and chain for humorous effect. |
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| You can't give it a ball and chain and train it like a dog, or else it just wouldn't be anarchy. |
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| The act is perceived as a ball and chain by Air Canada, the only airline affected by the regulations. |
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| Student loans will be like a ball and chain around the ankles of graduates, affecting their life choice for decades. |
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| Still, I look at that pager and think that while it weighs mere ounces, it could end up feeling like a ball and chain. |
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| To make his point, last summer he attached a heavy steel ball and chain to his ankle and dragged it up and down Lake Street. |
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| They tend to dress them up in a ball and chain, these sort of schoolboy pranks. |
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| As the U.S. economy has struggled to recover over the past 21 months, weak global demand has been like a ball and chain holding it back. |
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| And spare a thought for all those others, whose names are a ball and chain they must pull after them through the wilderness of this world. |
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| It is entitled Homme Qui Ne Marche Pas and attached to one leg is a large white ball and chain. |
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| Marilyn views the future with a great deal of concern, as she feels that her debt will be like a ball and chain for several years to come. |
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| The 'ego' is a ball and chain that shackles our development throughout our entire life. |
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| The largest shackle around the ankles of humanity is the ball and chain of religion. |
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| We have had some funny items over the years, including a ball and chain. |
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| Backing away, I took as many steps as the metal ball and chain allowed. |
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| You're not here to keep me company, you're my ball and chain! |
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| Logistics threatens to become a ball and chain to operational flexibility. |
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| A cell phone is practically sewn to your waist, a BlackBerry is virtually glued to your hand and instant messaging ties you to your boss like a ball and chain. |
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| A few skills, some common sense and a little etiquette and your trailer rig won't be someone else's ball and chain. |
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| People who believe its experiences should be used today and passed along in trust to their successors rub elbows with those who think that tradition and precedent are a ball and chain hindering progress. |
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| That debt was a ball and chain. It was weighing us down as a province. |
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| As delivered, it looks more like another ball and chain. |
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| While strong economic ties with our southern neighbour paid significant dividends during the economic boom of the past two decades, those ties have become a ball and chain around Ontario's ankle, as export demand has soured. |
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| Redeemable only when prices rose above 41.9 cents per gallon, it featured Hercules readying to bring a ball and chain down on a Canadian Tire Gas bar. |
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| Close economic ties to its southern neighbours paid tremendous dividends during the long economic expansion of the 1990s and 2000s but have become a ball and chain more recently. |
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| Arrogant and smug Lord Of The Manor Declan may have bagged himself a trophy wife, but he is about to discover why marriage is referred to as a ball and chain. |
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| Their business model of the 1920s and 1930s, which had catapulted the business to undreamt-of heights, had then turned into something of a ball and chain. |
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