purse strings

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purse strings

• 1. N-PLURAL If you say that someone holds or controls the purse strings, you mean that they control the way that money is spent in a particular family, group, or country. (家庭、團躰或國家的)財政['the' N]

  Women control the purse strings of most families. 在大多數家庭中，女人掌控著財政大權。

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