tied to apron strings 的定义
- 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.
tied to apron strings 近义词
等同于 dependent
tied to apron strings 的近义词 20 个
- defenseless
- poor
- reliant
- vulnerable
- inferior
- minor
- secondary
- subordinate
- abased
- clinging
- counting on
- debased
- humbled
- immature
- indigent
- lesser
- relying on
- under
- under thumb
- unsustaining
tied to apron strings 的反义词 9 个
更多tied to apron strings例句
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- Well, the numbers tell us so, as do all of our day-to-day interactions, just as the president said.
- Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
- All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
- "Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.
- Something remote and ancient stirred in her, something that was not of herself To-day, something half primitive, half barbaric.
- To-day I'm more dead than alive, as we had a lesson from him yesterday that lasted four hours.