"raise someone's shackles" meaning in All languages combined

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    {
      "form": "raises someone's shackles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "raising someone's shackles",
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    {
      "form": "raised someone's shackles",
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    },
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      "form": "raised someone's shackles",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "word": "raise someone's hackles"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001 02, Geri Crowder, The Cat's-Eye, iUniverse, page 138",
          "text": "His remark about her hair had raised her shackles. \"You didn't object to spending an occasional night in a comfortable bed so don't try to shift the dwindling cash onto my whims. What's put you in such a bad mood?\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "(Can we date this quote?), Eliza Crowe, Pick Your Monster, Kim McDougall",
          "text": "A far-off howl raised his shackles. A second howl joined the first. The rogues had found prey.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 August 1, Latika Mangrulkar, Life Happens, and Death Too: Stories and Poems, Strategic Book Publishing, page 73",
          "text": "Anything that even smelled of tradition or orthodoxy aroused absolute skepticism in him; actually, it raised his shackles instantly. Ashok had learned to hide the intensity of these feelings under a kindly and caring demeanor.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 September 22, Kristy McCaffrey, The Dove: Historical Western Romance, K. McCaffrey LLC",
          "text": "and rarely did it raise his shackles, but he didn't particularly care for Red's touch, as flattering as he supposed it was. But this wasn't flattery, Red was working.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 February 25, Jill Martin Bouteillier, Return to Sable, AuthorHouse",
          "text": "He would be expecting news, but she was wary of sharing the past Christmas celebration for fear it would raise his shackles.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 October 1, Rowena Candlish, Worth the Wait (A Novella), Rowena Candlish",
          "text": "But that one statement alone raised his shackles. “Why?”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see raise, shackle."
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          "shackle#English"
        ]
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    }
  ],
  "word": "raise someone's shackles"
}

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    "English verbs"
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    {
      "form": "raises someone's shackles",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "raising someone's shackles",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "raised someone's shackles",
      "tags": [
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        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "raised someone's shackles",
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          "word": "raise someone's hackles"
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        "Requests for date"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001 02, Geri Crowder, The Cat's-Eye, iUniverse, page 138",
          "text": "His remark about her hair had raised her shackles. \"You didn't object to spending an occasional night in a comfortable bed so don't try to shift the dwindling cash onto my whims. What's put you in such a bad mood?\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "(Can we date this quote?), Eliza Crowe, Pick Your Monster, Kim McDougall",
          "text": "A far-off howl raised his shackles. A second howl joined the first. The rogues had found prey.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 August 1, Latika Mangrulkar, Life Happens, and Death Too: Stories and Poems, Strategic Book Publishing, page 73",
          "text": "Anything that even smelled of tradition or orthodoxy aroused absolute skepticism in him; actually, it raised his shackles instantly. Ashok had learned to hide the intensity of these feelings under a kindly and caring demeanor.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 September 22, Kristy McCaffrey, The Dove: Historical Western Romance, K. McCaffrey LLC",
          "text": "and rarely did it raise his shackles, but he didn't particularly care for Red's touch, as flattering as he supposed it was. But this wasn't flattery, Red was working.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 February 25, Jill Martin Bouteillier, Return to Sable, AuthorHouse",
          "text": "He would be expecting news, but she was wary of sharing the past Christmas celebration for fear it would raise his shackles.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 October 1, Rowena Candlish, Worth the Wait (A Novella), Rowena Candlish",
          "text": "But that one statement alone raised his shackles. “Why?”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see raise, shackle."
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