cramp someone's style

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.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Roc	RAWK	Catalan
Katie	['keiti]
Raganhar	-	Ancient Germanic
Lidija	-	Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian
Shirley	SHUR-lee	English
Laurence (1)	LAWR-ənts	English