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

Only in this frenzied ojyuken world could apron strings stir up such passion.

From Salon • Jul. 15, 2018

She tightened her apron strings and walked over to her stove.

From New York Times • May 2, 2016

And while many still refer to it fondly as the Liverpool Daily Post, the newspaper has long cut the apron strings that tethered it to the Merseyside parent.

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2013

A large woman, barely done tying her apron strings, goes running to the cabin John and Ann Laydon share with two other families.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone