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

• I hold the purse strings, you see.
  你看，我掌握了钱袋口的绳子呢。
• The bank has been too slow in loosening the purse strings.
  银行一直迟迟不愿放开资金。
• The budget committee is in the process of tightening the purse strings.
  预算委员会正在紧缩开支。
• The politicians who control federal purse strings; tightened the corporate purse strings.
  控制联邦资金支入的政客；节省公司的钱财。
• 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。
• He holds the purse strings in the family.
  他在家里掌管财权。
• 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。
• She is a strong woman, holding the purse strings.
  她是个女强人，掌握着经济大权。
• You hold the purse strings of my husband's exhibition?
  你在我丈夫的展览中控制资金？
• 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。