leading strings

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. 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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