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Meanings of shoestring in English

Portuguese
atacador
Catalan
cordó
Spanish
cordón

A lace used for fastening shoes.

        atacador
        Synonyms
        Examples for "shoelace"
        Examples for "shoelace"
        1
        You ought to have thought about that this morning when your shoelace snapped.
        Shadows in the twilight
        2
        Then he made as if to tie his shoelace, which had come undone.
        The new yorker
        3
        Sebastian distracting his attention by bending, grunting, and tying his shoelace.
        The ginger man
        4
        His shoelace was untied, but he didn't stop to fix it.
        Wanted
        5
        Nowadays, sadly, it has to be an armpit, an eyebrow or a shoelace.
        The Guardian
        1
        Montgomery clasped his face, sat him down, and began tying his shoe lace.
        Reuters
        2
        Somebody is out of luck-oneglove is about as useless as one shoe lace.
        Four Little Blossoms and Their Winter Fun
        3
        N-not n-now, he stammered, and began to untie and retie his shoe lace very carefully.
        Captivity
        4
        I hurriedly double-knotted the shoe lace, grabbed up the flashlight, and climbed to my feet.
        The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
        5
        I fell down and hurt both legs and my right ankle, and broke my shoe lace.
        Reuters
        1
        An' he's fit 'em with jest a shoe string o' an army.
        In the Days of Poor Richard
        2
        See-this cross is but two bits of straw, bound together by a shoe string!
        My Home in the Field of Honor
        3
        My shoe string lead line hung out from the wall, tied at the anchor 150 feet above.
        Climbing Magazine
        4
        Some "worthy party workers" start a manufacturing plant up in Lake County on a shoe string.
        Epistles from Pap: Letters from the man known as 'The Will Roger...
        5
        Encircling his neck with an arm and compressing it to a sudden strand of shoe string, mouth open, tongue out, eyes popping.
        A singular man
        Usage of shoestring in English
        1
        Production values are bargain basement, thanks no doubt to a shoestring budget.
        Reuters
        2
        Whoever managed this was clearly working on a shoestring, with limited resources.
        Echoes Of Honor
        3
        He sat down in the door and began to loosen a shoestring.
        Whirligigs
        4
        But, unlike in Continental countries, our atlas is produced on a shoestring.
        The Irish Times
        5
        But, of course, not all Uighurs in Shanghai live on a shoestring.
        Reuters
        6
        The lawsuits mean additional expenses for a man on a shoestring budget.
        Reuters
        7
        We go classic; the mid-point of a shoestring and a fatter fry.
        News.com.au
        8
        We had to live off a shoestring for the first few years.
        The Irish Times
        9
        Then tug on the shoestring, and we'll pull you right back up.
        Transfer of power
        10
        But how do Irish poetry magazines, run on a shoestring, stay afloat?
        The Irish Times
        11
        I'm about as much use as a shoestring for a buttoned boot.
        Miss Gibbie Gault
        12
        Unlike the Flight Control Room at NASA, this was clearly a shoestring operation.
        Gravity
        13
        It manages to mount around 10 exhibitions a year on a shoestring budget.
        The new yorker
        14
        Turkey Where east meets west, travel on a shoestring in Turkey.
        News.com.au
        15
        In New Zealand, directors turn out music videos on shoestring budgets, harnessing No.
        Radio NZ
        16
        We've run this on a shoestring - not entirely by choice.
        Wired
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        Translations for shoestring
        Spanish
        cordón
        Shoestring through the time
        Shoestring across language varieties
        United States of America
        Common
        United Kingdom
        Common