Crossword-Solution: APRONSTRINGS
We have 2 clues for the answer “APRONSTRINGS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Symbol of dependence | 1 answer |
| Symbol of dependency | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with APRONSTRINGS (4)
Marguerite too at first had smiled in kindly derision when Suzanne Ffoulkes, her large eyes filled with tears, had used her wiles to keep Sir Andrew tied to her own dainty apronstrings.
His dispositions are naturally good; but he is too indolent for study; he does not read, and since he has been tied to his wife's apronstrings is fit for nothing.
Hope is a charming, lively, blue-eyed wench, and I am always glad of her company, but could dispense with the visitor she brings with her, her younger sister, Fear, a white-liver'd, lilly-cheeked, bashful, palpitating, awkward hussey, that hangs like a green girl at her sister's apronstrings, and will go with her whithersoever _she_ goes.
You have learnt to sit behind the stove like an old crone, and to dangle at the apronstrings of the women.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1979–2019).