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shoestring

[ shoo-string ]

noun

  1. a shoelace.
  2. a very small amount of money.
  3. shoestrings. shoestring potatoes.


adjective

  1. consisting of or characterized by a small amount of money:

    living on a shoestring budget.

shoestring

/ ˈʃːˌٰɪŋ /

noun

  1. another word for shoelace
  2. informal.
    1. a very small or petty amount of money (esp in the phrase on a shoestring )
    2. ( as modifier )

      a shoestring budget

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of shoestring1

First recorded in 1610–20; shoe + string
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Idioms and Phrases

see on a shoestring .
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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.”

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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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