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"forms": [
{
"form": "holds the purse strings",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "holding the purse strings",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "held the purse strings",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "held the purse strings",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"args": {
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},
"expansion": "hold the purse strings (third-person singular simple present holds the purse strings, present participle holding the purse strings, simple past and past participle held the purse strings)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1787, James Madison, The writings of James Madison: comprising his public papers and his private correspondence..., page 158",
"text": "The other branch was more immediately the representatives of the people, and it was a maxim that the people ought to hold the Purse-strings.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1985, Jerome Hellmuth, Coping with parents, page 62",
"text": "The power structure of the family is being shared by wives and husbands, mothers and fathers. Both hold the purse strings.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be in control of spending; to have financial power and responsibility."
],
"id": "en-hold_the_purse_strings-en-verb-iYvUjyuE",
"links": [
[
"control",
"control"
],
[
"spending",
"spending"
],
[
"financial",
"financial"
],
[
"power",
"power"
],
[
"responsibility",
"responsibility"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic, colloquial) To be in control of spending; to have financial power and responsibility."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "loosen the purse strings"
},
{
"word": "tighten the purse strings"
},
{
"english": "shares a theme of control",
"word": "pull strings"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "hold the pursestrings"
},
{
"word": "hold the purse-strings"
}
],
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"idiomatic"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be in control of expenditure",
"word": "pitää kukkaron nyörit tiukalla"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to be in control of expenditure",
"word": "tenir les cordons de la bourse"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to be in control of expenditure",
"word": "tenir la caisse"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to be in control of expenditure",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "trzymać rękę na kasie"
}
]
}
],
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/En-au-hold_the_purse_strings.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "hold the purse strings"
}
{
"forms": [
{
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"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "holding the purse strings",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "held the purse strings",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "held the purse strings",
"tags": [
"past"
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}
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},
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"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "loosen the purse strings"
},
{
"word": "tighten the purse strings"
},
{
"english": "shares a theme of control",
"word": "pull strings"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
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"English idioms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with quotations",
"English verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1787, James Madison, The writings of James Madison: comprising his public papers and his private correspondence..., page 158",
"text": "The other branch was more immediately the representatives of the people, and it was a maxim that the people ought to hold the Purse-strings.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1985, Jerome Hellmuth, Coping with parents, page 62",
"text": "The power structure of the family is being shared by wives and husbands, mothers and fathers. Both hold the purse strings.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be in control of spending; to have financial power and responsibility."
],
"links": [
[
"control",
"control"
],
[
"spending",
"spending"
],
[
"financial",
"financial"
],
[
"power",
"power"
],
[
"responsibility",
"responsibility"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic, colloquial) To be in control of spending; to have financial power and responsibility."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/En-au-hold_the_purse_strings.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "hold the pursestrings"
},
{
"word": "hold the purse-strings"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be in control of expenditure",
"word": "pitää kukkaron nyörit tiukalla"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to be in control of expenditure",
"word": "tenir les cordons de la bourse"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to be in control of expenditure",
"word": "tenir la caisse"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to be in control of expenditure",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "trzymać rękę na kasie"
}
],
"word": "hold the purse strings"
}
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