purse strings

英 [ˈpɜːs strɪŋz]

美 [ˈpɜːrs strɪŋz]

n.  资金(或支出)的管理

经济

牛津词典

noun

• 资金（或支出）的管理
  a way of referring to money and how it is controlled or spent
  1. Who holds the purse strings in your house?
     你们家里谁管钱？
  2. The government will have to tighten the purse strings (= spend less) .
     政府将不得不紧缩开支。

柯林斯词典

• N-PLURAL 资金的支配；财权
  If you say that someone holds or controlsthe purse strings, you mean that they control the way that money is spent in a particular family, group, or country.
  1. Women control the purse-strings of most families...
     大多数家庭由女性掌握财政大权。
  2. The bank has been too slow in loosening the purse strings.
     银行一直迟迟不愿放开资金。

双语例句

• She is a strong woman, holding the purse strings.
  她是个女强人，掌握着经济大权。
• These entrepreneurs were worried about the slump and the tight purse strings of the banks but about China?
  与会企业家担心经济低迷和银行收紧银根而关于中国呢？
• He holds the purse strings in the family.
  他在家里掌管财权。
• The budget committee is in the process of tightening the purse strings.
  预算委员会正在紧缩开支。
• But any transfer of capital to banks from the public purse must come with the necessary strings attached to realise their public purpose.
  但是，从公共金库到银行的任何资金转移，都必须附带必要的条件，以实现其公共目的。
• Many were less thrilled before they attended, forced to participate by parents who control the purse strings.
  很多孩子之前并不感兴趣，是在管钱的父母的逼迫下才去听课的。
• I ca n't offer you any more money because I do n't hold the purse strings.
  我不能再多给你钱了，因为我在经济上做不了主。
• Although I earn the pay, it's my wife who holds the purse strings.
  虽然薪水是我赚的，掌握薪水袋的却是我太太。
• I spent most of my salary this month on a computer, so I'll have to tighten up my purse strings for a couple of months.
  这个月工资大部分我都用来买电脑了，所以下面几个月我要勒紧裤腰带了。
• You hold the purse strings of my husband's exhibition?
  你在我丈夫的展览中控制资金？