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Shoestring   /ʃˈustrˌɪŋ/   Listen
Shoestring

noun
1.
A lace used for fastening shoes.  Synonyms: shoe lace, shoe string, shoelace.
2.
A small amount of money.  Synonym: shoe string.



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"Shoestring" Quotes from Famous Books



... He's not up to it!" They both grinned, and Maurice sat down on a wayside log to put a knot in a broken shoestring. Edith sat down, too, trying to keep her hat on, and cursing (she said) the unreliability of her hair. The shoestring mended, Maurice batted a tall ...
— The Vehement Flame • Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

... shoestring tied in a bow-knot around a stick. The knot should be an ordinary "double bow," with wings not over three or four inches long. Make this ready in advance of the experiment and show the ...
— The Measurement of Intelligence • Lewis Madison Terman



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