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
She tightened her apron strings and walked over to her stove.
From New York Times • May 2, 2016
Others are finding themselves tied up in apron strings all over again.
From Salon • Apr. 28, 2013
Grandmother hummed on and the apron strings trembled.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
