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To be in leading-strings is to be under the control of another. Leading-strings are those strings used for holding up infants just learning to walk.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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