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These are longer than traditional ads, mini-stories, designed to pull at heart- as well as purse strings.
How Monty The Penguin Won Christmas: Britain’s Epic, Emotional Commercials | Tim Teeman | November 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWithout a doubt, it will loosen the purse strings of nervous investors.
Justice Department: Good News for Recreational Stoners | Winston Ross | August 30, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBut would it help the movie if the studio loosened up the purse strings?
The problem extends far beyond the politicians who hold sway over the nation's purse strings.
Seems their parents, shell-shocked by their brokerage statements, have tightened the purse strings.
He was a magnificent paymaster to his sneaks; and bound them to him with the strongest of all ties—his purse-strings.
The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I | Susanna Moodie"It would take more than a gallon of rum to make old Cameron loosen his purse strings," she remembered having heard Conal say.
The Pioneers | Katharine Susannah PrichardI should have to coax my parents into loosening their purse-strings, and get them to buy me a beautiful new jacket.
The only one that could be called so was Don Pedro Miranda, and he would rather have a tooth drawn than loosen his purse-strings.
The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 | Armando Palacio ValdsThe young voevoda whom the people loved had the art of opening purse-strings as well as of forcing strongholds.
The Rise of the Russian Empire | Hector H. Munro
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