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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Used for “raising hackles”:
“It is so difficult to touch this subject without someone raising shackles and I’m tired of it.” – from the comments section, 3quarksdaily.org
“Sarko is doing what he said he would and this is not raising shackles (at the moment, touch wood).” – a comment at my.telegraph.co.uk
A Google search results in a mix of these eggcorns and some deliberate puns used in newspaper headlines (on prison inmates, etc.).
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