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shoestring
[ shoo-string ]
adjective
- consisting of or characterized by a small amount of money:
living on a shoestring budget.
shoestring
/ ˈʃːˌٰɪŋ /
noun
- another word for shoelace
- informal.
- a very small or petty amount of money (esp in the phrase on a shoestring )
- ( as modifier )
a shoestring budget
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of shoestring1
Idioms and Phrases
see on a shoestring .Example Sentences
But the sprawling epic made with a shoestring budget failed to make a splash among Screen Actors Guild voters, ultimately being shut out of the SAG Awards’ top category by “Wicked.”
Yet for beginning drivers from L.A. and Orange County, who are struggling to race on a shoestring budget, that track might just as well be on another planet.
While Rome was riven by “internecine strife” and Britain ran its empire on a shoestring budget, the U.S. was “constitutionally stable” with “an enormous industrial base.”
Put together on a shoestring budget with donated clothes, the video went viral after Mukherjee reposted it on his Instagram feed with a heart emoji.
Nix stepped out of a shoestring tackle late in the fourth quarter while scrambling for 21 yards to set up the Broncos’ last field-goal attempt.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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