leash
Example Sentences
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“He had me on a very tight leash,” she said.
She said she saw Athena wrapping her leash around an agent’s leg and barking frantically.
From Los Angeles Times
And he keeps a tight leash on a group of contestants who operate at various degrees of charming.
I feel like a sideshow attraction being led in on a leash.
From Literature
Luckily the works themselves keep slipping this interpretive leash.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
