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in the rattle

in the rattle prepositional phrase: kept in confinement as a disciplinary measure.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (UK, slang) Kept in confinement as a disciplinary measure.
    • If you were in the rattle too often, you would be labeled a troublemaker. Once that happened, it was virtually impossible to get back into the Navy's good books, and the chances were high that they would find some way to get rid of you.2005, Charles Gidley Wheeler, Jannaway's Mutiny

Questions about in the rattle

What does in the rattle mean?
In the rattle means kept in confinement as a disciplinary measure.
What part of speech is in the rattle?
In the rattle is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in the rattle in the dictionary

  1. in the post
  2. in the process
  3. in the process of
  4. in the pudding club
  5. in the racket
  6. in the rattle
  7. in the raw
  8. in the rear with the gear
  9. in the red
  10. in the refrigerator
  11. in the region of

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