purse strings

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purse strings

or purse·strings (pûrs′strĭngz′)
pl.n.
Financial support or resources, or control over them: the politicians who control federal purse strings; tightened the corporate purse strings.
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purse strings

pl n
(Banking & Finance) control of finance or expenditure (esp in such phrases as hold or control the purse strings)
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purse′ strings`


n.pl.
the right or power to determine the disposition of financial resources: Who holds the purse strings in your family?
[1450–1500]
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purse strings

npl to hold the purse strings (fig) → tenere i cordoni della borsa
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"Oh, monsieur, procurator's wife or duchess, if she will but loosen her pursestrings, it will be all the same; but she positively answered that she was tired of the exigencies and infidelities of Monsieur Porthos, and that she would not send him a denier."
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