shoestring
consisting of or characterized by a small amount of money: living on a shoestring budget.
Origin of shoestring
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How to use shoestring in a sentence
Neither is it some bush-league Johnny-come-lately gathering with C-list speakers and a shoe-string budget.
Young designers, who were already operating on a shoe string, were hit particularly hard.
CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Celebrates 2012 Award Winners | Robin Givhan | November 14, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTPassion, which he financed and produced, grossed $370 million worldwide on a shoe-string budget of $30 million.
Buster plopped down on all fours, as if he understood perfectly, and took a bite at my shoe string.
The Idyl of Twin Fires | Walter Prichard EatonTo the length of his shoe-string and the color of his doublet.
Sir Christopher | Maud Wilder Goodwin
Clarke had saved the game for Pittsburg in the sixth inning by a shoe-string.
Pitching in a Pinch | Christy MathewsonShe adores the pages that tell how to evolve your entire spring outfit from a shoe-string and a strip of left-over embroidery.
Mary Ware in Texas | Annie F. JohnstonThey have no sense of honor and their idea of speculation is to invest a shoe string with an idea of securing a tannery.
Nat Goodwin's Book | Nat C. Goodwin
British Dictionary definitions for shoestring
/ (ˈʃuːˌstrɪŋ) /
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
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Other Idioms and Phrases with shoestring
see on a shoestring.
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