leash
绳索,皮带,绳子,狗带
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Definitions
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- : a chain, strap, etc., for controlling or leading a dog or other animal; lead.
- : check; curb; restraint: to keep one's temper in leash; a tight leash on one's subordinates.
- : Hunting. a brace and a half, as of foxes or hounds.
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- : to secure, control, or restrain by or as if by a leash: to leash water power for industrial use.
- : to bind together by or as if by a leash; connect; link; associate.
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Examples
Apple also held a tight leash around not only the creative assets but also targeting data and detailed reporting information.
For a medium-size dog, she suggests a ½- to ¾-inch-wide nylon leash.
Be careful when going off-leashBefore you set your dog free, make sure you know the leash laws in your area.
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.
That goes for well-trained dogs, too, because once you take the leash off, a lot of factors will be beyond your control.
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.