Idiom
lighten someone's purse
Meaning
to take money from someone.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The expensive dinner really lightened my purse.”
“The street vendors were very persuasive and managed to lighten my purse before I even reached the museum.”
“After a long afternoon of browsing the luxury boutiques, the tourists found that their shopping spree had significantly lightened their purses.”
Examples
simple
“The expensive dinner really lightened my purse.”
contextual
“The street vendors were very persuasive and managed to lighten my purse before I even reached the museum.”
complex
“After a long afternoon of browsing the luxury boutiques, the tourists found that their shopping spree had significantly lightened their purses.”
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