English Dictionary

leading strings

名詞

複数形 複数形のみ 比喩的用法

Strings or straps by which a child is supported when learning to walk. / (figuratively) Guidance given during childhood.

日本語の意味

歩行補助用の紐、すなわち子供が歩行を覚える際に支えとして使用される紐や帯。 / （比喩的に）幼少期における指導や助言、成長を助けるための導き。

She carefully adjusted the leading strings to steady her toddler as he took his first tentative steps.

彼女は幼児が初めてためらいながら一歩を踏み出すとき、歩行補助ひもを慎重に調整して支えた。

意味（1）

Strings or straps by which a child is supported when learning to walk.

Thenceforward my voice was a household law; and at an age when few children have abandoned their leading-strings, I was left to the guidance of my own will, and became, in all but name, the master of my own actions.

意味（2）

(figuratively) Guidance given during childhood.

In the hey-day of youth, and hardly out of the leading strings of a school, he formed an intention to nuptialize, and joined heart and hand with sweet Ann Hathaway at the age of eighteen and a half.