10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TIED TO SOMEONE'S APRON STRINGS»
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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial ...
1929 Play title: April Showers: A Comedy in Three Acts Wright, Watkins E. Boston
: Walter H. Baker, 1929. To be tied to someone's apron strings (APP 9; ODEP 18;
EAP 12; MP 16) 1848 Mr. Calhoun cannot let go the apron-string of the Past. (p.
George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder, 2005
FIT old school tie 1 OLD SCHOOL tied to someone's apron strings ( Jttai^ A)
ig&AMftfrJ (He's fied ro his wife's apron strings'. i^XX&^&W ! ) to tie down ££f I
PRfrJ I IfffrJ (There 're so many things tying me dm n here! ill iSfE ft* 7 ! ) to tie in I.
... etc: The football team were doing very well when their best player upset the
applecart by breaking his leg. [From selling fruit from carts in street markets.]
apron tied to (someone's) apron-strings (derog) ruled by and dependent on (a
woman, ...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms
... (inf) to spoil plans, obstruct progress etc: The football team were doing very
well when their best player upset the applecart by breaking his leg. [From selling
fruit from carts in street markets.] apron tied to (someone's) apron-strings (derog)
...
Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick, C. M. Schwarz, 1993
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New Supreme Dictionary - English-English-Tamil:
QUIT Qar 0,0101 f-orar £>)LW. tied to someone's apron strings: totally depending
on someone with no independent thinking esp. on one's mother or wife, ,^(^t,a>
wuuL (t) iii f , gj) wansaraSI Qanyuip fi«,i ' fel Though he is nearly 50, he is stiff ...
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English-Amharic Context Dictionary
fcnA^f tied to someone's apron strings He is still tied to his mother's apron strings.
1? « hXV-ii -h? ^Afflrt|9° apropos of AA ViC Apropos of your vacation, what will
you do? AA •• ddV^V •• "tlC '□ 9~i » A^AC-1 ' KflQVA ? apt architecture apt 1.
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Sterling Dictionary of Idioms
APRON tied to someone's apron strings dependent upon He is still tied to his
mother 's apron strings and is unable to take any independent decisions. ARCH
arch enemy chief enemy Hitler was the arch enemy of the Jews. ARCHITECT ...
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
North American informal tie someone (up) in knots: see KNOT. tied to someone's
apron strings: see APRON. with one hand tied behind your back: see HAND. tiger
have (or catch) a tiger by the tail = ride a tiger. 0 A similar difficulty confronts ...
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Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus
... meek, cringing, unresisting, unassertive, led by the nose, under someone's
thumb, at someone's beck and call, tied to someone's apron strings, nagged, in
harness; see also OBEDIENT 1 . herb n. seasoning, flavoring, spice, medicine.
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Webster's New World Thesaurus
... docile, meek, cringing, unresisting, unassertive, led by the nose, under
someone's thumb, at someone's beck and call, tied to someone's apron strings,
nagged, in harness; see also OBEDIENT 1. herb n. seasoning, flavoring, spice,
medicine.
