| 单词 | on a shoestring |
| 释义 | > as lemmason a shoestring 3. A small or inadequate amount of money; a very little capital; a small margin. Chiefly in on a shoestring. colloquial (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > small sum parcelc1400 plack1530 dodkinc1555 triflec1595 denier1597 driblet1659 song1698 Flanders-fortune1699 pin money1702 doit1728 drab1828 picayune1838 sprat1883 shoestring1904 peanut1910 1882 Cent. Mag. Apr. 884/2 [He] could draw to a shoe-string, as the saying went, and obtain a tan-yard!] 1904 Cosmopolitan May 89/2 He..speculated ‘on a shoe~string’—an exceedingly slim margin. 1926 J. Black You can't Win viii. 90 The new owners had no bankroll, just opened up on a shoestring. 1932 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 310/1 Every business man who has made a big success of himself started on a shoestring. 1932 Nation (N.Y.) 9 Mar. 271 American universities have started department after department on financial shoe-strings. 1957 Listener 28 Nov. 893/3 Reformative efforts have to be..as they say, ‘run on a shoe-string’. 1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds xvii. 441 Australians in England, youth-hosteling on a shoestring. < as lemmas |
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