There are good actions or ideas but they are restricted by some external factors and cannot develop completely freely.

According to Baidu’s experience data: Dancing with shackles is used to warn people not to be too limited and to express themselves. It is generally used to describe a good action or idea but it is restricted by some external factors and cannot develop completely freely.

Dancing in shackles, this is the famous saying of American critic Perry. His original intention was to say that when poets write poetry, they are actually dancing with shackles on their feet. What he calls shackles refers to the rhythm of poetry. But this sentence is actually also a philosophy of life.