"apron string" meaning in All languages combined

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "_dis1": "88 12",
          "word": "apron-string hold"
        },
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          "_dis1": "88 12",
          "word": "loosen the apron strings"
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        "One of the pair of strings or narrow sewn clothstrips used to fasten an apron around the wearer's waist."
      ],
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          "cloth",
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          "word": "cut the umbilical cord"
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        {
          "_dis1": "86 14",
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          "ref": "1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 7, in The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. […] , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] Smith, Elder, & Company, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "[T]he opinion of the country was that my lord was tied to his wife's apron-strings, and that she ruled over him.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1914, Thornton W. Burgess, chapter 1, in The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat:",
          "text": "\"Pooh!\" said Jerry, throwing out his chest, \"I guess I can take care of myself without being tied to my mother's apron strings!\"",
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        "A symbol of the domestic ties binding a male to a female (as a husband to a wife or a son to a mother)."
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        "(idiomatic, usually in the plural) A symbol of the domestic ties binding a male to a female (as a husband to a wife or a son to a mother)."
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      "word": "apron-string hold"
    },
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      "word": "loosen the apron strings"
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        "One of the pair of strings or narrow sewn clothstrips used to fasten an apron around the wearer's waist."
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