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noun

Shoestring n.

Same as shoelace.

A sum of money, inadequate or barely adequate for the purpose to which it is put to use; as, to start up an enterprise on a shoestring.

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Etymology of 'Shoestring'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shoestring" Quotes from Famous Books

... self-confident to the point of bravado, had baffled me. I began to feel that even if he had lost the detectaphone record, his was the nature to carry out the bluff of still having it, in much the same manner that he would have played the market on a shoestring or made the most of an unfilled four-card flush ...

— The Ear in the Wall • Arthur B. Reeve

... shoestring; stand attention, and look at me," says the officer, very quietly, but with setting teeth that no man fails to note. Rix ...

— A War-Time Wooing - A Story • Charles King

... looking for something I lost," said the young oarsman. "Have you seen anything in here of a flat, white package with a black shoestring ...

— The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview • Ralph Bonehill

... folk sat together and busied themselves with sewing. The cobbler, who made shoes for the entire household, sat working at the same time in the men-servants' quarters, and one never tired of watching him as he cut the leather and soled and heeled the shoes and put eyelets in the shoestring holes. ...

— The Wonderful Adventures of Nils • Selma Lagerlof

... and held little Teether swung perilously across one slender hip, while she clasped Martin Luther's chubby fingers in her other hand. And behold, the transformation of the young stranger was complete beyond belief! His yellow thatch was crowned by a straw hat, which was circled by a brand new shoestring, though it gaped across the crown to let out a peeping curl. Young Ez's garments even had proved a size too large and the faded blue jeans "britches" were rolled up over his round little knees and hitched ...

— The Road to Providence • Maria Thompson Daviess

... couldn't believe he'd really pull it off. Course, I knew he could make Fargo's name go a long ways if he used it judicious; but to launch out and hire an estate worth half a million—why he was makin' a shoestring start look like a ...

— Odd Numbers - Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford

Words linked to "Shoestring" : small indefinite quantity, shoe string, shoestring fungus, shoe lace, shoelace, lacing, shoestring catch, lace, small indefinite amount