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"navel string" is a correct and usable phrase in English.
It is typically used as a poetic metaphor to refer to a person's emotional ties to a place where they are from. For example, "Her navel string is forever tied to the small village she grew up in."
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navel string
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Alternative form of navel-string
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She resents the "invisible navel string" that continues to connect her to her daughter.
Yet this belies her ease in responding to the navel string when she accepts it.
I think this is too simple – that the invisible navel string felt by Mrs Morel and by Martha is not just a product of its time.
The Cut writer Jessica Roy proposed other phrases that could be spelled with "navel string", including "FIRST!!!1" and "LET'S GO METS".
In a passage that seems knowingly or unknowingly to have influenced Lessing, Mrs Morel is distressed to feel as though "the navel string that had connected [the baby's] frail little body with hers had not been broken".
Equality, it was now seen, was going to involve women as well as men having primarily social relationships with their children in which the navel string could be cut.
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The exhibit, called "The Homecoming of the Navel Strings," was created by a Japanese artist, Noritoshi Hirakawa, who lives in New York and has shown it there.
Sir Philip Sidney coined fear-babes and navel-string.
The Hitchcock-navel question.
The narrator recalls a "vision" she first had when she was nine, of being pulled into the sky, "as if I were a kite about to be yanked up by a string attached just below my navel".
For $4.95 plus postage, nonmatriculated students could order a home-instruction kit complete with two bosom bonnets, one G-string, a rhinestone for the navel and a copy of the curriculum.
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