[
UK
/ʃˈuːstɹɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈʃuˌstɹɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈʃuˌstɹɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- a lace used for fastening shoes
-
a small amount of money
he managed it on a shoestring
How To Use shoestring In A Sentence
- It brings prestige to Scotland on a shoestring, and a great deal is done by people for whom it's a crusade, not a job.
- From elegant trapeze artists to humorous anecdotal scenes of circus life on a shoestring budget, you can see why Camille is tempted to join Petra and run away with the circus.
- We had to figure out web content technology on the shoestring budget of a nonprofit. Christianity Today
- Both mains were around the $16 mark, and we shared some shoestring fries with a lemon pepper seasoning, with a side of coriander aioli (I know, bad for the arteries, but what the heck).
- All its success is built on a shoestring, and now it must make more cuts.
- If most of your exposure to religion involves televangelists, you may not realize just how many churches run on shoestring budgets.
- He won three trophies in three years on a shoestring at Valencia. Times, Sunday Times
- Her organisation, already operating on a shoestring, is likely to close, after nearly six years of campaigning.
- he managed it on a shoestring
- The British-produced film was made on a shoestring budget.