Who holds the purse strings in your house?

你们家里谁管钱？

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Women control the purse strings of most families.

在大多数家庭中，女人掌控着财政大权。

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He got his punishment, however, not from the author, but from the public who hold the purse strings.

他得到了处罚，但并不是作者给他的，而是那些手捂着钱袋的大众。

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Conrad also appeared on This Week. The U.S.Constitution gives Congress power over the nation's purse strings.

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This promise, they hope, will be enough to excite the holders of the purse strings.

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So the purse strings are going to be untied to boost the downloads as much as possible.

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Business executives should understand that bad (read expensive) things happen when customers don't control the purse strings.

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