N-PLURAL 资金的支配；财权 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. 资金的支配；财权
Women control the purse-strings of most families.
大多数家庭由女性掌握财政大权。
The bank has been too slow in loosening the purse strings.