raise someone's shackles

English

Verb

raise someone's shackles (third-person singular simple present raises someone's shackles, present participle raising someone's shackles, simple past and past participle raised someone's shackles)

1. Misconstruction of raise someone's hackles
   • 2001 02, Geri Crowder, The Cat's-Eye, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 138:

     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?"

   • (Can we date this quote?), Eliza Crowe, Pick Your Monster, Kim McDougall, →ISBN:

     A far-off howl raised his shackles. A second howl joined the first. The rogues had found prey.

   • 2011 August 1, Latika Mangrulkar, Life Happens, and Death Too: Stories and Poems, Strategic Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 73:

     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.

   • 2014 September 22, Kristy McCaffrey, The Dove: Historical Western Romance, K. McCaffrey LLC, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2015 February 25, Jill Martin Bouteillier, Return to Sable, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

     He would be expecting news, but she was wary of sharing the past Christmas celebration for fear it would raise his shackles.

   • 2016 October 1, Rowena Candlish, Worth the Wait (A Novella), Rowena Candlish, →ISBN:

     But that one statement alone raised his shackles. “Why?”

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see raise,‎ shackle.