LEADING STRINGS


Meaning of LEADING STRINGS in English

ˈlē- noun plural

1. : strings by which children are sometimes supported when beginning to walk

2. : a state of dependence or tutelage : guidance

leading strings had been so willingly accepted that they were scarcely felt — E.M.Forster

— usually used in the phrase in leading strings

no longer in leading strings to his wife or his wife's father — Francis Hackett

passed his whole adolescence in his mother's leading strings — Van Wyck Brooks

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.