cramp someone's style

Slang definitions & phrases for cramp someone's style

cramp someone's style

verb phrase

To be a hindrance or distraction: Your blank stare cramps my style

[1917+; Charles Lamb had written ''cramps the flow of the style'' as early as 1819]


Idioms and Phrases with cramp someone's style

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.