Смысл: apron

apron[ʹeıprən]
n
<Í> 1. передник, фартук
2. полсть (в экипаже)
3. сл.
1) женщина; ≅юбка
2) домашняя хозяйка; жена
3) бармен, буфетчик
4. театр. авансцена (тж. apron stage)
5. спец. лоток, жёлоб, скат
6. гидр. порог, водобой
7. тех.
1) пластина (конвейера)
2) фартук (суппорта станка)
8. мор. фальстем
9. ширина набережной
10. ледяной (подводный) таран айсберга
11. нажимной элеватор (в сноповязалке или комбайне)
12. воен. оттяжка проволочного заграждения
13. воен. маскировка орудия
14. 1) ав. бетонированная площадка (перед ангаром)
2) авт. паркинг
15. островной шельф

apron Идиома

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?

Apron strings

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.

apron string

apron string
tied to one's mother's (or wife's, etc.) apron strings
dominated by one's mother (or wife, etc.)

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.

More Idioms/Phrases

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English Vocalbulary

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