apron strings

Example Sentences

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How do I manage my mother’s anxieties while disentangling myself from her apron strings?

From Slate • Dec. 2, 2019

She tightened her apron strings and walked over to her stove.

From New York Times • May 2, 2016

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

Others are finding themselves tied up in apron strings all over again.

From Salon • Apr. 28, 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