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.
- 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘William Wilson’:
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