Apron string

(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 21:52:18

A"pron string` (#).

The string of an apron.

To be tied to a wife's or mother's apron strings, to be unduly controlled by a wife or mother.

He was so made that he could not submit to be tied to the apron strings even of the best of wives. Macaulay.

 

© Webster 1913.

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