hold the purse strings

to control the spending of a family's or an organization's money In our house it was my mother who held the purse strings.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Katarzyna	kah-tah-ZHI-nah	Polish
Subira	-	Eastern African, Swahili
Rune	ROO-ne	Norwegian, Danish, Swedish
Leoncio	le-ON-thyo (Spanish), le-ON-syo (Latin American Spanish)	Spanish
Hayley	['heili]
Minako	mee-nah-ko	Japanese