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tied to apron strings



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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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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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