英语词汇tied to one-s mother-s apron strings的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

tied to one’s mother’s apron strings. “Apron-string hold” or “apron-string tenure” was a law about four centuries ago under which a husband could hold title to property passed on to his wife by her family only while his wife lived—provided that she had not divorced him. Many wives therefore controlled the purse strings and made all important family decisions, in which their husbands didn’t have much to say. Such men, who often did just as they were told, were said to be tied to their wives’ apron strings, a phrase suggested by “apron-string hold.” Be- cause male children in such a family tended to be dominated by their mothers as well, even when they were fully grown, the now more common expression tied to his mother’s apron strings arose. French writer Gérard de Nerval (1808–55) actually hanged himself from a lamppost with an apron string. Apron is a corruption of napron, from the French naperon, “a little table- cloth,” a napron corrupted to an apron in English.

词汇	tied to one-s mother-s apron strings
词源	tied to one’s mother’s apron strings. “Apron-string hold” or “apron-string tenure” was a law about four centuries ago under which a husband could hold title to property passed on to his wife by her family only while his wife lived—provided that she had not divorced him. Many wives therefore controlled the purse strings and made all important family decisions, in which their husbands didn’t have much to say. Such men, who often did just as they were told, were said to be tied to their wives’ apron strings, a phrase suggested by “apron-string hold.” Be- cause male children in such a family tended to be dominated by their mothers as well, even when they were fully grown, the now more common expression tied to his mother’s apron strings arose. French writer Gérard de Nerval (1808–55) actually hanged himself from a lamppost with an apron string. Apron is a corruption of napron, from the French naperon, “a little table- cloth,” a napron corrupted to an apron in English.
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