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Leading strings

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Noun
  1. 1
    Strings or straps by which a child is supported when learning to walk. plural, plural-only

    "Thenceforward my voice was a household law; and at an age when few children have abandoned their leading-strings, I was left to the guidance of my own will, and became, in all but name, the master of my own actions."

  2. 2
    Guidance given during childhood. figuratively, plural, plural-only

    "In the hey-day of youth, and hardly out of the leading strings of a school, he formed an intention to nuptialize, and joined heart and hand with sweet Ann Hathaway at the age of eighteen and a half."

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