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• n  restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
• n  the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
• n  a figurative restraint
  kept a tight leash on his emotions
  he's always gotten a long leash
• v  fasten with a rope

• Dog owners, please don't buy that leash-on-a-reel thing that takes up 40 ft.
• By the same token, he figures, you shouldn't wear a Captain America costume, put your goat on a leash or let your pants fall down in public.
• To the world outside Abu Ghraib prison, he became an iconic figure, a naked, prostrate Iraqi prisoner crawling on the end of a leash held by Private Lynndie England, the pixyish .

• tether
• lead
• three
• 3
• III
• trio
• threesome
• tierce
• troika
• triad
• trine
• trinity
• ternary
• ternion
• triplet
• tercet
• terzetto
• trey
• deuce-ace
• collar
• rope

News & Articles

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• Dead dog discovered on leash; owner charged
  LAPORTE COUNTY | A Michigan City area man could face jail time after his dog was found Sunday choked to death on a leash wrapped around the legs of a table.
  June 11, 2013 - The Times of Northwest Indiana
• La Porte County man faces charges after dead dog found on leash
  MICHIGAN CITY – A Michigan City area man could face jail time after his dog was found choked to death on a leash wrapped around the legs of a table.
  June 11, 2013 - 22 WSBT South Bend
• Mid-county fight over off-leash dogs heats up in Santa Cruz
  LIVE OAK -- Tongues were wagging and fur was flying Monday night as the Santa Cruz County Parks and Recreation Commission met to consider one of the weightier issues to come before it in years -- off-leash dog beaches.
  June 11, 2013 - Santa Cruz Sentinel

Quotes

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• Geoffrey Fieger in USA Today
  He's on a short leash for the next two years,Fieger said Friday. "After that, it will be another story. After two years, he no longer is going to be under their thumb."
• Romeo Crennel in USA Today
  He is the starter,Crennel said. "He is the quarterback. He is not on a short leash. If he were on a short leash, I would've told him before the game that if you throw two interceptions I'm going to take you out. But I didn't do that...
• Chris Martin in expressandstar.com
  Singer Chris Martin says: "This album was fuelled by a desire to move from black and white into colour. Or, if you like, we decided to let our garden grow a little more unkempt. The bloodhound was let off its leash."