VOA慢速英语 短语学习On a Short Leash

　　Keeping a person on a short leash means keeping him or her under close control. The person cannot make many decisions for himself or herself.

　　Word expert James Rogers found a similar saying used more than four hundred years ago. In fifteen sixty, writer Thomas Becon said in a religious book: "For God hath them in leash. Yea, they are his slaves."

　　Miz Cleveland does not keep her workers on a short leash. Instead, she urges them to create better ways to do business.

　　For example, her secretary proposed an idea. She said the company should give a prize to the best student in the high school near its factory. The winner could use the prize money to study at a university.

　　Miz Cleveland approved of the idea. After the prize was announced, people who lived in the area of the factory began to buy more of the company's candy. Local newspapers wrote about the competition. Business improved.

　　Miz Cleveland made her secretary the company's first director of public relations. The former secretary was very pleased. She said: "My old job had become Mickey Mouse. Now I have a much more creative one."

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