strings attached
C2 If something such as an agreement has strings attached, it involves special demands or limits:
Most of these so-called special offers come with strings attached.
They immediately agreed to donate $1,000, no strings attached.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Range and limits
- all the way to idiom
- ambit
- band
- bound
- boundary
- breadth
- condition
- limit
- limited
- meta-
- narrow
- narrowly
- range
- specialized
- spread
- stricture
- string
- term
- the gamut
- threshold
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