loose purse strings



conspicuous consumption, dissipation, extravagance, incontinence, intemperance, lavishness, profusion, waste ,

   mascot - amulet, charm, fetish, good-luck charm, hoodoo, love charm, luck, lucky bean, lucky piece, mumbo jumbo, phylactery, scarab, swastika, talisman, veronica,

   by-product - after-effect, after-image, after-taste, afterglow, aftermath, consequence, corollary, derivation, derivative, descendant, development, distillate, event, eventuality, fruit,

   golden rule - a priori truth, altruistic ethics, axiom, canon, casuistry, categorical imperative, code, commandment, comparative ethics, convention, dictate, dictum, egoistic ethics, empiricism, ethical formalism,

   crush one - burden, exhaust, haunt, obsess, oppress, tire, wear out, weary, weigh upon ,

   ordinary people - common people, commoner, commons, labourer, lower class, lumpen proletariat, middle class, peasantry, plain folks, proletariat, rank and file, shopkeeper, third estate, toiler, working class ,

   theological - canonical, divine, ecclesiastical, religious, scholastic ,

   urban blight - barrio, city, core, down town, ghetto, outskirts, shopping centre, skid row, slum, suburbia, suburbs, tenderloin, tenement district, uptown ,

   contrary to - against, counter to, in opposition to, opposed, opposite ,

   unhidden - apparent, bald, bare, clear, cleared, detectable, discernible, disclosed, evident, exposed, exposed to view, free, hanging out, in evidence, in full view,

   put in time - kill time, summer, take time, weekend, winter ,