chained purse strings
Purse Strings - 1933 is rated/received certificates of: UK:A
Create yourself a workable budget and stick to it.
The ​spending of ​money by a ​family, ​company, or ​country.ExampleA ​recent ​survey ​showed that in 62 ​percent of ​families, women ​control the purse ​strings.
Unfortunately, many entities hold a nation's purse strings. Though the US Treasury is in partial control over physical aspects of currency and coins, The US Congress sets the laws for hundreds to thousands of Federal spending programs, including the military's pay and benefits. So it is more like everyone is fighting over those "purse strings".
The tourist is spending discretionary funds, give them what they want, and they will open their purse strings.
What give Congress so much power is that they control the purse strings.
that they trust you with their purse
Did you mean "purse"? A purse is 'un sac' (masc). My purse is 'mon sac'.
This is a comparison between your lips and a purse, which is a drawstring bag usually used to hold someone's money. When you draw up the strings to close a purse, it looks a lot like someone's mouth if they are closing their lips like an "O" or as if they were going to kiss someone.
It is common noun except when it is proper noun (January 6th 1562, at St. Mary at Hill; and on September 25th 1569, the marriage of Georgius Purse to Margata Rumforth took place at St. Andrew's, Enfield.), or a verb (Can the baby purse his lips?) or an adjective (The government will not loosen its purse strings))
Because the guys who control the oil also control the businesses and the Federal purse strings.