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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
Example Sentences
Peanuts, but important peanuts — especially for rural and tribal libraries that function on shoestring budgets.
Only a handful of ecosystem restoration projects were attempted, hampered by shoestring budgets.
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.”
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