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

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

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