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Shoestring   Listen
noun
Shoestring  n.  
1.
Same as shoelace.
2.
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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"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


Words linked to "Shoestring" :   shoestring catch, aglet, aiglet, lacing, lace, shoe, small indefinite quantity


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