Meaning of purse string | Babel Free

Examples

“Mrs. Cavendish, however, was a lady who liked to make her own plans, and expected other people to fall in with them, and in this case she certainly had the whip hand, namely: the purse strings.”

“"However, this does not mean the government should be involved in operational decisions, take responsibility for the punctuality of specific services, promote ministers' pet infrastructure projects, or clutch the purse strings so tightly that the railway's financial relationship with government forces it to operate on a short-term hand-to-mouth basis."”

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