apron strings
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This cutting of the apron strings sometimes comes early: Certain seal moms spend as little as three days nursing their pups before ducking beneath the chilly ocean waves, never to return.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2021
How do I manage my mother’s anxieties while disentangling myself from her apron strings?
From Slate ● Dec. 2, 2019
Only in this frenzied ojyuken world could apron strings stir up such passion.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2018
It was this parent-child relationship, and I think people were just terrified of the apron strings being cut off.
From BBC ● May 23, 2018
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
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