“- 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