put someone in handcuffs , auch: put someone in cuffs informal

"There's no way that officer was just trying to put him in handcuffs."

We need to let the Legislature act, not put it in handcuffs.

How do you spin a criminal suspect to put him in handcuffs?

That's why I got so angry when they put me in handcuffs."

The police picked him off the ground and put him in handcuffs.

She cursed and challenged the cop to put her in handcuffs.

"They put him in handcuffs and that was all.

When 76 of them showed up to claim the money, officers put them in handcuffs instead.

They put him in handcuffs and waited for a bomb squad to arrive.

"Are you going to lock them up, put them in handcuffs?"

Sharif must tread carefully with the man who once put him in handcuffs.

Los Angeles police officers apprehended the vendor and put him in handcuffs.

Three uniformed Secret Service officers put him in handcuffs on the ground.

They put me in handcuffs...and the four children were taken away to a police station.

The police arrested us and put us in handcuffs.

Let them put me in handcuffs,” he said.

Since she was bound at the hands and feet, deputies put Jansen in handcuffs for their safety, according to the report.

She raised her voice and told them 'it was an absolute waste of police time' but they put her in handcuffs.

"He was getting off the plane with his golf clubs and they put him in handcuffs," Giesen said.

She is pulled over by Barton himself, who puts her in handcuffs and takes her down to the police station.

He walked out with $8,702 but was stopped nearby by police, who put him in handcuffs and waited for a bomb squad to arrive.

But they arrested him and put him in handcuffs to take him to court.

At least I know that they are friends -- it's not like they put me in handcuffs!

Officers deemed Rosby to be interfering with their work and put him in handcuffs.

The police broke through the bedroom door and tried to put him in handcuffs, shouting, "Boston police!"

There's no way he can get back onto the station, not without somebody putting him in cuffs.

They started to put me in cuffs and I just grabbed the gun."

Law enforcement is not geared to do deterrence: Their one goal is to put someone in cuffs at the end of the day.

They threw her on the ground, put her in cuffs, leaving her facedown.

"The issue is I spent a night in jail, they put me in cuffs and it was demeaning to myself," Wallace said.

There was a federal air marshal on the aircraft, who subdued the woman and put her in cuffs and removed her from the plane.

Thompson added: 'We ended up putting him in cuffs and we turned him over to the medics after we moved him away from the boat.

Had Arenas brought guns to any other work place and pulled the same stupid stunts, he would've been fired immediately and cops would've put him in cuffs.

"Everybody knows where this stuff is, OK, and they know the people who run the Web site, so why can't they go there tonight to the guy's house who runs it, put him in cuffs and take him down and book him?"

The coffee burned his face so badly, we had to take him to the hospital (he had second-degree burns) – but not before the Seal took the man face down to the pavement, placing his knee painfully in the man's back, and putting him in cuffs.