leading strings

See also: leading-strings

English

leading strings pl (plural only)

Strings or straps by which a child is supported when learning to walk.
- 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘William Wilson’:
  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.
(figuratively) Guidance given during childhood.
- 1827, The Boston Lyceum (volumes 1-2, page 206)
  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.

单词	leading strings
释义	leading strings See also: leading-strings English Noun leading strings pl (plural only) Strings or straps by which a child is supported when learning to walk. 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘William Wilson’: 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. (figuratively) Guidance given during childhood. 1827, The Boston Lyceum (volumes 1-2, page 206) 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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