control the purse strings -Idioms

Idioms

control the purse strings

to be in charge of the money

My mother used to control the purse strings in our family.

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cook (someone's) goose

cook up (something) or cook (something) up

cool as a cucumber

cool one's heels

cost a pretty penny

down in the dumps

dressed to kill

let the chance slip by

proof is in the pudding/proof of the pudding is in the eating

watch one's step

out of one's hair

cut no ice with (someone)

jockey for position

run out of (something)

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