shoestring

/ˈʃuːstrɪŋ/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈʃuːstrɪŋ/

shoestring

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Final ng sound

shoes - tring -> shoestring

Myanmar meaning

ဖိနပ်ကြိုး။ နည်းပါးသော ၊ မလုံလောက်သော ငွေကျေးပမာဏ။

Full entry

shoestring /'ʃu:strÇŋ/ n (esp US )

ဖိနပ်ကြိုး။
adj (infml ) ငွေမစို့မပို့ဖြင့်။ a shoestring budget.
❏ on a shoestring [IDM ] (infml )
ခြိုးခြိုးခြံခြံ။
travel round the world on a shoestring.

More examples

‘With only $24 million at her disposal, less than 2% of the UN's budget, she is operating on a shoestring and facing problems that would have daunted Sisyphus.’
‘The shop has helped me to get married on a shoestring, and yet still be able to wear a stunning dress for the occasion.’
‘Many of the small neighborhood stores and restaurants, particularly those in poor areas, were already operating on a shoestring.’
‘A documentary on the subject, made on a shoestring, has proved a surprise hit and reaped a small fortune.’
‘It was comparatively cheap to other courses but was always run on a shoestring.’
‘Having proven his ability to operate successfully on a shoestring budget he is regarded as a prime candidate to return to the cash-strapped club he served for many years.’
‘Most B&B owners aren't millionaires, we run our budget on a shoestring so this is desperate for us.’
‘It operates on a shoestring so it may be unkind to point to the very poor production values, but it and others have solved problems more creatively than is the case here.’
‘Readers might well ask how on earth it can be that a website operating on a shoestring is left to provide such a vital and basic service to the public.’
‘The consensus of everyone is that it will be painful, but you cannot run a council as large as ours on a shoestring.’
‘A real Scottish success story, this not-for-profit business was launched on a shoestring in 1999, and now reaches out to 500 social entrepreneurs.’
‘All its success is built on a shoestring, and now it must make more cuts.’
‘I don't want them living on a shoestring unless they absolutely have to.’
‘He said the eclectic team included ‘students, young graduates, bank managers and housewives’, all operating on a shoestring.’
‘It was such a rags to riches story which the brothers did on a shoestring.’
‘It brings prestige to Scotland on a shoestring, and a great deal is done by people for whom it's a crusade, not a job.’
‘Even that sort of budget, says Blair, means ‘you run on a shoestring: you spend no money on a motor-home and stay in cheap hotels.’’
‘However, despite throwing a walloping £19 million at a system that worked very well thank you on a shoestring, the corps has not been an unqualified success.’
‘Her organisation, already operating on a shoestring, is likely to close, after nearly six years of campaigning.’
‘Working on a shoestring - ‘I had some wheeling and dealing to do because we didn't have a penny in the piggy bank.’’

Synonyms

base, beside the point, big zero, casual, cheap, contemptible, content, digestible, dinky, entry level, entry-level, exiguous, faint, fractional, fragmentary, frivolous, frothy, frugal, gentle, hardly any, hardly enough, immaterial, inadequate, inappreciable, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, indifferent, indistinct, inessential, inferior, insignificant, insufficient, irrelevant, junior, lesser, light, little, low-ranking, lower, meaningless, measly, mild, minor, minuscule, minute, moderate, modest, narrow-minded, negligible, nickel-and-dime, niggling, no biggie, nonessential, not important, not many, not much, not rich, nothing, nugatory, null, of no account, of no consequence, paltry, peanut, penny-ante, pettifogging, petty, picayune, piddling, puny, restricted, runt, scanty, scratch, second-rate, secondary, shabby, shallow, shrimp, skimpy, slight, small, small potatoes, small-minded, small-time, soft, sparse, subordinate, superficial, thin, tiny, trifling, trivial, two bit, two-bit, unconsidered, unimportant, unnecessary, unsubstantial, useless, value, weak, wee, wimpy, worthless, zero, zilch, zip

Antonyms

big, black, bold, brave, brunette, concentrated, consequential, considerable, dark, darkened, difficult, dim, dusky, enormous, fat, firm, first-class, first-rate, giant, gloomy, grave, great, greater, harsh, heavy, huge, immense, important, laborious, large, loud, magnanimous, magnificent, major, massive, meaningful, necessary, obscure, open, open-minded, prominent, relevant, rough, serious, significant, solemn, strong, substantial, superior, thick, useful, valuable, violent, weighted, wild, worthwhile, worthy