Leading-string
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Strings with which children were formerly guided while they were learning to walk. historical, plural-normally
"her lover [...] treated me in all respects as a perfect infant. To say the truth, I wonder she had not insisted on my again wearing leading-strings."
Example
More examples"her lover [...] treated me in all respects as a perfect infant. To say the truth, I wonder she had not insisted on my again wearing leading-strings."
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