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When people who hold the purse strings tell people asking for money to answer those three questions very specifically, they're asking for almost useless information.

Faced with huge difficulties of their own, Banks have tightened their purse strings, lending less and driving up the cost of credit to consumers and corporations.

"With households already keeping a tight grip on their purse strings, and unemployment still rising, fiscal retrenchment could pose a risk to the gradual pace of recovery, " he said.

The Treasurer refused to let go of the club's purse strings.

Loosening the purse strings did not mean abandoning the frugality that was the clearest consumer trend during the recession.

With time-pressured but empowered women controlling household budgets, how should marketers go about getting them to loosen their purse strings?

Those that need more capital soon will get it only at a very high price if they can get it at all, as venture capitalists tighten their purse strings.

The hope is that the deal will herald a more general loosening of purse strings.

This is rather new for the IMF, which has rarely advocated loosening purse strings in poor countries.

Investors are already tightening their purse strings.

In America, by contrast, anxiety about public debt is making businesses and consumers tighten their purse strings.

I don't want to hold the purse strings though I see who holds the purse rules the house.

Nearly half of Japan's housewives keep money secret from their husbands and most of them doubt their spouses have any idea about it, a survey found, showing women's hold the purse strings here.

Yet even if shoppers are out in force, their purse strings are likely to be tightened by rising unemployment.

"After all, most wives believe their husbands have no secret assets and they have a grip on their family purse strings, " the life insurer said.