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tied to your mother's/wife's apron strings
idiom old-fashioneddisapproving
If you say that someone, especially a man, is tied to his mother's/wife's apron strings, it means that he is strongly influenced and controlled by that person.受母亲／老婆的管束
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Obedient and compliant
accordance
acquiescent
acquiescently
adherence
compliantly
do as someone is told
dutiful
dutifully
easy
follower
pliable
pursuant
ruly
sheep
sheeple
slavish
someone's answer to someone/somethingidiom
truckle
what/whatever someone says goesidiom
yielding
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