Youngmi
"These high winds and heavy rain are cramping my style" "These high winds and heavy rain are cramping my style" What does 'cramp one's style' mean?
23 gen 2017 10:23
Risposte · 3
Affecting you negatively. Sometimes this can be used literally, referring to style
27 gennaio 2017
At its most basic, it just means "interfering with what I'd normally do and/or how I'd do it." But the Interwebs has more info: "Restrict or prevent someone from free action or expression, as in It really cramps my style when Mom hovers around me while I'm making dinner. Although in 1819 Charles Lamb complained that using different inks cramped his style of writing, the present sense of this colloquial term dates only from the early 1900s." - The Interwebs.
23 gennaio 2017
"The informal idiom "cramp my style" means to restrict or prevent someone from free action or natural expression (in abilities, style, flair, etc). One is the verb to mean to confine (or 'to box in') something or someone
23 gennaio 2017
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