shoestring
noun/ˈʃuːstrɪŋ/
/ˈʃuːstrɪŋ/
(North American English) (also shoelace, lace (both British and North American English))
Idioms - a long thin piece of material like string that goes through the holes on a shoe and is used to fasten it
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Idioms
See shoestring in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryon a shoestring
- (informal) using very little money
- In the early years, the business was run on a shoestring.
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