| 单词 | to be in leading-strings |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be in leading-strings 1. Strings with which children used to be guided and supported when learning to walk. to be in leading-strings: to be still a child; figurative to be in a state of dependence or pupilage. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > [noun] > dependency hangingc1430 dependency1593 dependence1614 unsubsistence1642 leading-string1677 the world > people > person > child > [noun] > childhood childhoodOE childheadc1330 bairnheid1393 enfauncec1400 puerice1481 puerility1512 childage1548 childishness1597 leading-string1677 impuberty1785 cap and feather days1822 bairnhooda1835 child-life1841 pupillarity1846 tunic-hood1859 bread-and-butterhood1869 preadolescence1907 latency1910 puerilism1925 the world > people > person > child > [noun] > childhood > minority nonage1400 less agec1436 minority1493 pupillarity1561 nonwit1571 pupilship1581 pupillage1590 pupil age1598 under-age1613 underagedness1648 infancy1658 leading-string1677 minorship1841 minorage1888 the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > [noun] > means of protection or defence > device or contrivance to protect a thing or person > device protecting babies or infants leading-string1677 dading1865 reins1878 baby harness1899 society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > walking leisurely or idly > an act of > support when walking or learning to walk leading-string1677 1677 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer i. 1 But I'll have no Leading-strings, I can walk alone. a1685 T. Otway Poet's Complaint of Muse xiii, in Wks. (1727) II. 366 In little time the Hell-bred Brat..Without his Leading-strings could walk. 1779 T. A. Mann in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 417 I live in a Country where good Philosophy is still in its leading-strings. 1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 531 One that still needs his leading-string and bib. 1812 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (ed. 2) I. ii. vii. 119 He..gallops through mud and mire,..merely to show that he is a lad of spirit, and out of his leading strings. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 317/2 Thus the ‘model’ lodgers are kept, as it were, in leading-strings. 1884 J. R. Lowell Wks. (1890) VI. 135 His [Cervantes'] genius soon broke away from the leading-strings of a plot that denied free scope to his conceptions. < as lemmas |
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