apron strings Definition

umbilical cord, purse strings, fetters, subservient, bedposts, eyeteeth, shoestrings, straitjacket, yoke, shoelaces, tongue, bosom, untie, plait, knot, whims, sinews, strictures, wrists, shackles, pinking shears, mollycoddled, straightjacket, laces, indissolubly, appendage, heartstring, umbilical, vise, rope, gagged, pinny, necktie, bootstraps, garrotte, braid, inextricably, straitlaced, crusts, tenuously, forelock, earlobes, emancipate, unknotted, trammels, overlordship, strangulating, participles, minxes, bowline, matriarchy, cultureless, twine, possessively, overhand knot, britches, cord, nincompoops, red tape, clerisy, manless, pliable, strangling, jackboot, clique, bedsheets, manacle, deracinated, immutably, noose, stickily, thrall, bind, footloose, acquiesce, overbearing, rebelliously, intractably, highborn, millstone, acquiescent, uptight, tethers, postfeminist, teat, mincer, foreskin, untwisted, gordian knot, overprotective, aunties, tresses, girdle, scions, unknot, uppity, fangs, rigidly, thumbscrews, heartstrings,