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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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of shoestring1

First recorded in 1610–20; shoe + string
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Peanuts, but important peanuts — especially for rural and tribal libraries that function on shoestring budgets.

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Only a handful of ecosystem restoration projects were attempted, hampered by shoestring budgets.

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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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