Strings attached

If there are “strings attached” to an agreement or situation, it involves special demands or limits. The more industrious nations, the savers, didn’t love providing emergency loans and bailouts to the more spendthrift nations. Not to mention, the less stable countries didn’t appreciate the harsh “strings attached,” or special demands, to that help. Deals that sound too good to be true usually have “strings attached.” The couple agreed to donate $1000 to the cause, no “strings attached.”