bracelets

bracelets

slang Handcuffs. Slap the bracelets on him, Joey—we'll question him back at the station.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

bracelets

n. handcuffs. The cops put the bracelets on Jane and led her away.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • (Have you) been OK?
  • on one's
  • on someone's
  • pillow-biter
  • (in) back of (something)
  • (something) blows
  • out of one's
  • (I've) got to go
  • #dead
  • save someone's skin
References in classic literature
"If I could persuade her to write a word to say she liked her bracelet," he thought, "it would be a comfort when I go back to my solitary life." He tore a leaf out of his pocket book and wrote on it, "One line to say you accept my gift and my good wishes.
My Ladys Money
I will keep these--this ring and bracelet," said Dorothea.
Middlemarch
[Holding out her handsome arm.] No; but it looks very well on me as a bracelet, doesn't it?
CHEVELEY tries to get the bracelet off her arm, but fails.
You can't get that bracelet off, unless you know where the spring is.
[She tries again to unclasp the bracelet, but fails.]
[Again tears at the bracelet in a paroxysm of rage, with inarticulate sounds.
Ideal Husband
She places them in a labyrinth where they are condemned to walk for ever, with a bracelet on their arms and a cord round their necks, unless they meet another as miserable as themselves.
Yellow Fairy Book
The rings are as coldly viewed as the bracelet. Edwin tells the tempter that he wears no jewellery but his watch and chain, which were his father's; and his shirt-pin.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
'Since you told me a lady had given you the bracelet you showed me, Fanny, I have not been quite easy on your account, and indeed want to know a little more if you will confide more to me.'
I immediately,' addressing Little Dorrit, '(for I am the creature of impulse), took a bracelet from my arm, and begged your sister to let me clasp it on hers, in token of the delight I had in our being able to approach the subject so far on a common footing.' (This was perfectly true, the lady having bought a cheap and showy article on her way to the interview, with a general eye to bribery.)
Little Dorrit
``I will wear the bracelet for you, if you will, friend Palmer,'' said Wamba.
Ivanhoe
My friends and I learned that there were fans who had gone to the specialty store in Gangnam-gu where Ji ordered the friendship bracelets. One of us, Ledie, was headed back to Korea for an EXO concert, and so we asked her to get us more bracelets.
That Ji Chang Wook bracelet: Why it's precious
Pupils at a Bearwood school have made more than 200 bracelets to raise funds for Acorns Children's Hospice.
Bracelets galore to help hospice
One can explore a wide variety of products in this Mother's Day jewelry collection in the form of charms, rings, earrings, necklaces, bracelets, etc.
Celebrate the Essence of Motherhood with Fourseven Mother's Day Gifts Collection