apron strings
Example Sentences
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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
Those proverbial apron strings prove hard to untangle in the new reality series “I Love a Mama’s Boy.”
From Los Angeles Times
Apps have also stepped into this vacuum and are ideal for people ready to cut their apron strings with Google Translate.
From Washington Post
It might be time to pull some of them off the apron strings.
From Los Angeles Times
Would it be rude to help him cut these apron strings?
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
