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

• 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。
• He's loosening his purse strings to gain more popularity.
  他在掏腰包买知名度。
• 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。
• 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？
• Many are holding purse strings tightly in the current regulatory environment.
  在当前的监管环境下，大多数人节省开支。
• 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 hold the purse strings, you see.
  你看，我掌握了钱袋口的绳子呢。
• 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。
• The budget committee is in the process of tightening the purse strings.
  预算委员会正在紧缩开支。