| 单词 | puppet strings |
| 释义 | puppet strings The larvae that stay behind begin to pull the puppet strings, so to speak. Smithsonian These are the years when you start doing everything for yourselves - you are cutting those golden puppet strings of parental care. Times, Sunday Times Thunderbirds just isn't the same without those weird jerky movements and visible puppet strings. Times, Sunday Times It's also a metaphor, referring to the way people are obsessed with money and power which pull on them like puppet strings. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Unlike some similar puppet shows of the time, the puppet strings were all but invisible. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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