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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 A·pron string The string of an apron.
 To be tied to a wife's apron strings  or To be tied to a mother's apron strings, to be unduly controlled by a wife or mother.
    He was so made that he could not submit to be tied to the apron strings even of the best of wives.   --Macaulay.