PROCRUSTEAN BED


Meaning of PROCRUSTEAN BED in English

“- noun

or pro·crus·tes bed -(ˌ)stēz-

Usage: often capitalized P

: something (as a system, policy, doctrine) into conformity with which or subservience to which someone or something is arbitrarily and often ruthlessly or violently forced

a Procrustean bed wherein the unsuspecting student would be cut or stretched to a preconceived pattern — Benjamin Fine

might be broken by the implacable procrustes bed of government machinery — John Gunther

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