Anna Karenina vocabulary

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nightingales can't live on fairy tales
to fling one's cap over the windmill
the game is not worth the candle
make a clean breast
tied to apron strings
where the shoe pinches
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tied to apron strings

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completely dependant on or controlled by a woman, usually refers to a mother or wife
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When I come back there'll be the note from Kitty. Yes, Stiva may be right, I'm not manly with her, I'm tied to her apron-strings…. Well, it can't be helped! Negative again…."

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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