TiedTied to your mother's apronstrings. Not yet out of nursery government; not free to act on your own responsibility. The allusion is to tying naughty young children to the mother's or nurse's apron. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Tied from Fact Monster:
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