ápron strìngs 에이프런 끈
be tied to one's mother's[wife's] apron strings 어머니[아내]에게 쥐여살다

Apron strings 관용구

tied to your mother's apron strings

still dependent on mom, needing your mom's help He has to ask his mother. He's still tied to her apron strings.

tied to one's mother's apron strings

Idiom(s): tied to one's mother's apron strings

Theme: CONTROL

dominated by one's mother; dependent on one's mother.
• Tom is still tied to his mother's apron strings.
• Isn't he a little old to be tied to his mother's apron strings?

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A man who is tied to a woman's apron strings is excessively dependent on her, especially when it is his mother's apron strings.

tied to his mother's apron strings

someone (normally a man) who does what his mother tells him: "He didn't want to come out last weekend, because his mother disapproves of us. He's really tied to her apron strings!"

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Not independent of your mother; not able to do anything without asking your mother. Even after he grew up he was still tied to his mother's apron strings.

tied to apron strings

tied to apron strings
Wholly dependent on or controlled by a woman, especially one's mother or wife. For example, At 25, he was still too tied to her apron strings to get an apartment of his own. This expression, dating from the early 1800s, probably alluded to apron-string tenure, a 17th-century law that allowed a husband to control his wife's and her family's property during her lifetime.

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The admeasurement to which addition controls, influences, or monitors addition else, abnormally parents in affiliation to their children. Mothers these canicule are so careful about their kids, accepting to apperceive area they are at every additional of the day. They would absolutely do able-bodied to alleviate the accessory strings a little, if you ask me! Sending kids to summer camps has been in abatement in contempo years, as parents accept become beneath and beneath absorbed to alleviate the accessory strings. Can he accomplish a accommodation of his own, or is he activity to break angry to the president's accessory strings?Learn more: apron, string

(tied to) your mother’s, wife’s, etc. ˈapron strings

(too abundant under) the access and ascendancy of somebody, abnormally your mother, wife, etc: The British prime abbot is too apt to adhere to Washington’s accessory strings.Learn more: apron, string

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