apron strings
Example Sentences
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Men who couldn’t, or worse, didn’t want to, were portrayed as marionettes tied to and practically strangled by their mothers’ apron strings.
From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2024
How do I manage my mother’s anxieties while disentangling myself from her apron strings?
From Slate • Dec. 2, 2019
If you’re trying to cut the apron strings, why work with your mother?
From Washington Post • Aug. 31, 2017
And while many still refer to it fondly as the Liverpool Daily Post, the newspaper has long cut the apron strings that tethered it to the Merseyside parent.
From BBC • Sep. 23, 2013
This time as she came away, she absently untied and re-tied her apron strings, taking up what little slack her enormous waistline allowed.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
