Cooped up
Both terms in one sentence
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Ankh's Yummies, after "growing up", keep their host cooped up in a "nest" and "nurse" them (by fulfilling their desires), whether they want it or not.
Source: Series / Kamen Rider OOO - And when Charles died I was still to run in strings for the honour of your beastly family, and I was to be cooped up at Sawston and learn to keep house, and all my chances spoilet of marry again.
Source: Did You Think I Can't Feel? - Batman Gambit: Aohd's final gambit is to keep Kirk, Angus and a few others cooped up in Russia, specifically forbidding them to go to war to expand Scotland's borders until they get fed up and go anyway, discovering and dominating a foreign civilization (the Aztecs), just like Edward and Edmund did.
Source: Lets Play / A Scotsman in Egypt
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