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All parents, at one time or another, must decide how and when to "cut the apron strings."

Although you'd think Demeter would have wanted to cut the apron strings after a few thousand years.

We need to cut the apron strings with America, even though we are scared to do it."

I wasn't ready to cut the apron strings, but I was going to have to lengthen them a bit.

They call it cutting the apron strings.

Gertrude also lets her sons know that she's living just for them, placing enormous pressure on their ability to "cut the apron strings."

Prior to airing, this was announced in the press as Cutting the Apron Strings.

Like other brokers who choose not to cut the apron strings, Ms. Friedman said that her relationship to the couple has tilted from business to social.

"It's time for politicians and public sector bosses to cut the apron strings and trust frontline staff to make decisions.

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I'd cut the apron strings.'

'So,' Manfred greeted him, 'Britannia has cut the apron strings, my friend."

But Ms. Luongo never cut the apron strings, spending every day in the North End and sending her two sons to a parochial school there.

How to Cut the Apron Strings Before the Honeymoon His devotion to Mama is just one clue you've found a good, sensitive man.

And tonight the Rustic Slicker had drawn a little way apart, had cut the apron strings, had stood on his own with the first dawning of independence.

After years of struggling with the disconnect between the goals of the GCC project and its own compiler needs, Apple has finally cut the apron strings.

When it comes to cutting the apron strings, CDS must still consider the 1,800-odd users of CDC's Cyber mainframe series.

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IT'S a bit embarrassing to have to admit to liking "Butterflies Are Free," the 1969 comedy by Leonard Gershe about a young blind man who cuts the apron strings connecting him to his protective mother and tries independent living in an East Side apartment.

Scattered north, south, east & west Age of discovery The beaver hat craze French vs English Pass the aspirin Cronies take power Resentment issues Canada confederates How the West was won Cutting the apron strings Lil' Canada all grown up