cramp someone's style
To restrict someone's free action or expression.
I don't want my Mum to go to the party: she'd really cramp my style.
style
UK /staɪl/ US /staɪl/
noun 5verb 4
Definitions
noun
1
Senses relating to a thin, pointed object.
Thus while his Thoughts the lingring Day beguile, / To gentle Arcite let us turn our Style; [...]
2
Senses relating to a thin, pointed object.
From Job xix. 24. it appears to have been usual in his day, to write or engrave upon Plates of Lead, which might easily be done with a Pen, or Graver, or Style of Iron, or other hard metal.
3
Senses relating to a thin, pointed object.
Laſt of all fit a Triangular Iron, whoſe angular point being laid to the Center of the Dyal Plane, one ſide muſt agree with the Subſtilar Line, and its other ſide with the Stilar Line; ſo is the Stile made. And this Stile you muſt erect perpendicularly over the Subſtilar Line on the Dyal Plane, and there fix it. Then is your Dyal finiſhed.
4
Senses relating to a thin, pointed object.
The calyx of Theophraſta is a ſmall, permanent perianthium, divided into five obtuſe ſegments, making obtuſe angles alſo with one another: [...] the ſtyle is ſubulated, and ſhorter than the corolla: the ſtigma is acute.
5
Senses relating to a thin, pointed object.
verb
1
To design, fashion, make, or arrange in a certain way or form (style).
2
To call or give a name or title to.
The pope is styled His or Your Holiness.
[…] Donenald O-Neale, rovvſed out of his lurking holes, in his miſsiue letters vnto the Pope, ſtileth himſelfe King of Vlſter, and in right of inheritance, the vndoubted Heire of all Ireland.
3
To create for, or give to, someone a style, fashion, or image, particularly one which is regarded as attractive, tasteful, or trendy.
4
To act in a way which seeks to show that one possesses style.
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