purse puppy English

Meaning purse puppy meaning

What does purse puppy mean?

purse puppy noun

— (informal) A dog small enough to fit into a sleeve, purse, or backpack.

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This view clearly influences Republican office-holders, who fear the partisan beast that mans their campaigns' phone banks and holds the purse strings.

The increase will fall on employers, not the public purse, and so the reduction in credits and benefits is a net gain for Her Majesty's Treasury.

The EU redistributes billions of euros from rich to poor members: more poor members mean more claimants on that purse.

Germany has now opened its purse, acting as Greece's prime rescuer.

The European parliament is also not yet a real parliament, with control of the purse and oversight of the executive.

Blame for failures does rest, in part, on the West, which was nonchalant in its efforts and stingy with its purse.

The nature of the trouble in higher education is similar to that affecting all the public services: a massive growth in demand that can no longer be met from the public purse.

That doctrine of hard discipline was abolished in a coup in May 2010, when it was claimed that the world would collapse unless Germany opened its purse.

So far this year, healthy companies have slowly been loosening their purse strings - a notable departure from the risk-averse behavior that has prevailed since the global financial crisis.

And governments would almost certainly have to back some lending banks, too, so the claimed benefits in terms of insulating the public purse would not be realized.

Larger developing countries must assume an expanded role in unwinding the protectionist measures that came with their expanded use of the public purse, and reestablish forward motion.

Germany will have to loosen its beloved purse strings, and France will have to surrender some of its precious political sovereignty.

In democracies, courts are heard, and obeyed, even if their judgements affect the original parliamentary power of the purse, as in recent German cases concerning the pension entitlements of particular groups.