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
He tells me the scarification symbolises the purging of their mothers' blood and the gaining of their own adult blood - in a somewhat excruciating metaphorical severing of the apron strings.
From BBC • Aug. 25, 2018
Only in this frenzied ojyuken world could apron strings stir up such passion.
From Salon • Jul. 15, 2018
If you’re trying to cut the apron strings, why work with your mother?
From Washington Post • Aug. 31, 2017
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
