writer's cramp | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Adebilitatingpain preventing easy movement of thewrist,hand, orfingers, resulting fromprolongeduse of a pen or pencil.Synonyms:cheirospasm,graphospasm,mogigraphiac.1900,O. Henry,He Also Serves:The recording of their tales is no more than a matter of ears and fingers. There are only two fates I dread—deafness andwriter's cramp.1909,P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 12, inMike: A Public School Story:"The following boys will go in to extra lesson this afternoon and next Wednesday," it began. And "the following boys" numbered four hundred."Bates must have gotwriter's cramp," said Clowes, as he read the huge scroll.1922,Peter B. Kyne, chapter 23, inCappy Ricks Retires:Christmas dividend checks and checks covering Christmas presents to his employees were always signed by him. . . . He hadwriter's crampby the time he finished.2007Nov. 4,John Updike, "On Literary Biography" (excerpt fromDue Considerations),New York Times(retrieved 9 Dec 2011):Henry James, after he suffered an attack ofwriter's cramp, began to dictate to a typist.

Examples:

EN: Have you got writer's cramp?
ES: Ya basta.
EN: Sometimes a girl... gets writer's cramp, harry.
ES: A veces a una mujer... le da miedo escribir, Harry.
EN: I'll get writer's cramp.
ES: Tendré un calambre de mano.
EN: It wouldn't give you writer's cramp.
ES: No le daría calambres de escritor.
EN: Don't get writer's cramp.
ES: Que no te dé un calambre de escribir.
EN: I have writer's cramp.
ES: Tengo calambre de escritor.
EN: A touch of the writer's cramp will soon sort you out.
ES: Así se te formará el estilo. Vamos, Shake.
EN: Yeah, it looks like permanent writer's cramp.
ES: Sí, parece un calambre permanente de escritor.
EN: Oh, it's his writer's cramp.
ES: Nunca me dijiste sobre esto.
EN: You'll get writer's cramp in your jaw.
ES: Después te dolerán las mandíbulas.
EN: I've got writer's cramp.
ES: Tengo un calambre en la mano.
EN: You must get writer's cramp.
ES: debes conseguir Calambre del escritor.
EN: I don't know; it's leaving me with writer's cramp, I'll tell you.
ES: No lo sé; me está dejando con calambre del escritor, te lo diré.
EN: You have writer's cramp.
ES: Tienes calambres por escribir mucho.
EN: Your mom must be getting writer's cramp.
ES: Tu madre debe estar sufriendo calambres de escritor.

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