apron strings

The last time the debt limit was raised, this past February, Boehner agreed in the end to do it with no strings attached.

Sarah was standing on the porch again wiping her hands on her apron, looking away toward the fields.

Round her neck depended from a black velvet band, strings of diamonds of great size and magnificence.

You would laugh if you should see the strings of eggs hanging across this pony's back—yes, eggs.

Shrieking inarticulate anathema, he rushed downstairs, the man in the green baize apron following at his heels.

The flues are subdivided into Diapasons, Flutes, and Strings, and we now proceed to consider each of these groups separately.