"apron string" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "_dis1": "88 12",
          "word": "apron-string hold"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "88 12",
          "word": "loosen the apron strings"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One of the pair of strings or narrow sewn clothstrips used to fasten an apron around the wearer's waist."
      ],
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          "sewn",
          "sewn"
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          "cloth",
          "cloth"
        ],
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          "strips",
          "strips"
        ]
      ],
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          "_dis1": "88 12",
          "word": "cut the umbilical cord"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "86 14",
          "word": "apron-string"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 7, in The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.",
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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!\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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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        [
          "tie",
          "tie"
        ]
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      "qualifier": "usually pluralized",
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        "(idiomatic, usually pluralized) 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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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
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  ],
  "word": "apron string"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "apron-string hold"
    },
    {
      "word": "loosen the apron strings"
    }
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    {
      "form": "apron strings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "word": "cut the umbilical cord"
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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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          "sewn",
          "sewn"
        ],
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          "cloth",
          "cloth"
        ],
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          "strips",
          "strips"
        ]
      ]
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          "ref": "1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 7, in The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.",
          "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",
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        }
      ],
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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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        [
          "domestic",
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        ],
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          "tie",
          "tie"
        ]
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        "(idiomatic, usually pluralized) 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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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "apron-string"
    }
  ],
  "word": "apron string"
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