shoestring
IPA: ʃˈustrɪŋ
noun
- (chiefly US) The string or lace used to secure a shoe to the foot; a shoelace.
- (figuratively, often attributively)
- An object that is long and thin, like a shoestring (sense 1).
- (cooking) A long, narrow cut of a food; a julienne.
- Chiefly in on a shoestring: very little money; a tight budget.
verb
- (transitive, American football) To tackle (a player) using a shoestring tackle (“one made near the ground, close to a player's shoes”).
- (transitive, baseball) To catch (a ball) using a shoestring catch (“one made near the ground, close to a player's shoes”).
adjective
- (US, chiefly American football, baseball) Of a catch or tackle: made near the ground, close to a player's shoes.
shoe string
IPA: ʃˈustrˈɪŋ
noun
- a small amount of money
- a lace used for fastening shoes
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Examples of "shoestring" in Sentences
- He operated on a shoestring budget.
- Law reviews are run on a shoestring.
- They are also produced on a shoestring.
- The competition was run on a shoestring.
- The film was made with a shoestring budget.
- The film was shot on a shoestring and a prayer.
- This allows the event to be run on a shoestring.
- His Highness was actually working on a shoestring.
- They are doing this on a shoestring, which is a shame.
- Griffith was known for running the Senators on a shoestring.
- It was self financed by the filmmakers on a shoestring budget.
- O'BRIEN: Barnstorming the region, he became known as the shoestring traveler.
- Saying Corman makes movies on a shoestring is a giant understatement -- to him, corner cutting is an art form.
- Having indulged myself in shoestring Martha Stewart living in the recent past, i've become quite resourceful finding ways to make planks and rags look like Magical Venice.
- Such as Mississippi's "shoestring" district during Reconstruction, which swept enough blacks into one narrow district along the river to leave five other districts with white majorities.
- I thought about it for all about two seconds and opined that the fact that he had been eating enormous amounts of green "shoestring" licorice might have something to do with this little "problem".
Examples of "shoe-string" in Sentences
- I have never even heard of a shoe-string sized frite before.
- Then he had to scale down to a few loyal advisors and run on a shoe-string budget.
- Butler said the signs are an in-kind donation, noting they are running a campaign on a shoe-string budget.
- Bush-Cheney-Rove (BCR) went into Afghanistan with a great U.S. military force but executed the war on Rumsfeld's shoe-string budget.
- Of course, this plays into our hands because filming in Eastern Europe is so much cheaper than shooting in America and we're having to do this on a shoe-string budget as it is.
- Since then, however, the channel has struggled on a shoe-string budget to build original programming and still relies heavily on first-run movies to fill the channel's schedule.
- For a Cause "Empowering women on a G-string, rather than a shoe-string" was the strange if catchy slogan on the invitation for Thursday's first Lingerie New York couture fashion show presented by the beach resort Freedom Bay St. Lucia.
- You'd think that, given its own internal disarray, the most powerful newspaper in the world would understand the management problems of an anti-poverty group -- one that runs on a shoe-string budget and whose staff earns relatively low salaries.
- In the case of this anthology, however, where the editors were for hires for a book packager which then turns the anthology over on a shoe-string budget to the publisher for distribution and there are multiple authors, the chance of author imput on the cover was going to be nil.
- Billy Farrell Lucas McMaster, Milly McAskin and Sienna Lightman Various adorable and impeccably behaved children were provided with adorable Lanvin-ized chef hats and aprons as well as a smorsgasbord of decorative material—Ladurée macarons, gumdrops, shoe-string licorice—with which to turn their shabby gingerbread houses into maisons en pain d'épice.
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