leash

For one, you don’t really have control when you let the leash spool out, and while you’re supposed to be able to reel it back in, they sometimes malfunction.

They say The Guardian has been dragging its feet on the pursuit of NSA-related stories while keeping the Times on a short leash.

Cruz is not alone in demanding that the IRS be neutered, or at least be put on a very short leash.

In the article, she spoke about her boyfriend taking her to clubs on a leash and collar.

As long as he polls even with HRC, he'll be given a long leash indeed.

Hillary Clinton was kept on a pretty short leash by this White House.

Nicholson and John Lawrence were there; could they hold those warrior-tribes in subjection, or, better still, in leash?

The little page who answered the door held in leash an Arab greyhound larger than himself.

Imperturbable, on the platform, he seemed to be holding in leash the Wendover train whose engines were throbbing for flight.

Kathlyn, seizing the leash, followed like the wind, hampered though she was by the apron.

She snapped the leash on his collar just as her father came running up, pale and disturbed.