in leash
English
Prepositional phrase
- Restrained with a leash.
- (figuratively) Under restraint; retrained; retaining one's composure.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- "I shall hold myself strongly in leash, and see whether by this self-restraint I attain a more favorable result."