with strings attached

To shore up cash flow, the city of Bellevue gives BAM $2 million, with strings attached.

West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner, a Republican, said he does not support federal money for elections because “typically, it comes with strings attached.”

“Federal money often comes with strings attached, and more of it is often not a good thing,” Ian Fury, the chief of communications for Gov. Noem wrote in an email to Chalkbeat.

But unlike general social service grants for schooling or health, housing funds typically come with strings attached.

Here’s where the story will sound familiar: Eurydice ends up in hell, Orpheus goes in after her and makes a deal to get her out, which comes, naturally, with strings attached.