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

• Retailers also fared well as consumers began to loosen those proverbial purse strings.
  零售商的状况也不错，消费者开始放松捂紧的钱包。
• The budget committee is in the process of tightening the purse strings.
  预算委员会正在紧缩开支。
• The normally parsimonious finance ministry may thus be prepared to loosen the purse strings to "buy" sufficient growth to get the tax increase implemented.
  通常出手吝啬的财务省，可能因此要准备慷慨解囊了，好“买到”可观的增长，让增税计划得以实施。
• He's loosening his purse strings to gain more popularity.
  他在掏腰包买知名度。
• I hold the purse strings, you see.
  你看，我掌握了钱袋口的绳子呢。
• 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。
• 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。
• You hold the purse strings of my husband's exhibition?
  你在我丈夫的展览中控制资金？
• The bank has been too slow in loosening the purse strings.
  银行一直迟迟不愿放开资金。
• 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。