"feel the pinch" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "feels the pinch",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "feeling the pinch",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "felt the pinch",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "felt the pinch",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "feel<,,felt> the pinch"
      },
      "expansion": "feel the pinch (third-person singular simple present feels the pinch, present participle feeling the pinch, simple past and past participle felt the pinch)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Russian terms with redundant script codes",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant script codes",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Working-class families are feeling the pinch in the wake of the recession."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To suffer a hardship, especially significant financial pressure."
      ],
      "id": "en-feel_the_pinch-en-verb-NTBX7-Ed",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, informal) To suffer a hardship, especially significant financial pressure."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "shǒutóu jiéjū",
          "sense": "to suffer a hardship",
          "word": "手頭拮据"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to suffer a hardship",
          "word": "tuntea nahoissaan"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to suffer a hardship",
          "word": "essere con l'acqua alla gola"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "zatjanútʹ reménʹ",
          "sense": "to suffer a hardship",
          "word": "затяну́ть реме́нь"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "položítʹ zúby na pólku",
          "sense": "to suffer a hardship",
          "word": "положи́ть зу́бы на по́лку"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-feel the pinch.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3c/En-au-feel_the_pinch.ogg/En-au-feel_the_pinch.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/En-au-feel_the_pinch.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "feel the pinch"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "feels the pinch",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "feeling the pinch",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "felt the pinch",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "felt the pinch",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "feel<,,felt> the pinch"
      },
      "expansion": "feel the pinch (third-person singular simple present feels the pinch, present participle feeling the pinch, simple past and past participle felt the pinch)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English verbs",
        "Russian terms with redundant script codes"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Working-class families are feeling the pinch in the wake of the recession."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To suffer a hardship, especially significant financial pressure."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, informal) To suffer a hardship, especially significant financial pressure."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-feel the pinch.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3c/En-au-feel_the_pinch.ogg/En-au-feel_the_pinch.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/En-au-feel_the_pinch.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shǒutóu jiéjū",
      "sense": "to suffer a hardship",
      "word": "手頭拮据"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to suffer a hardship",
      "word": "tuntea nahoissaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to suffer a hardship",
      "word": "essere con l'acqua alla gola"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zatjanútʹ reménʹ",
      "sense": "to suffer a hardship",
      "word": "затяну́ть реме́нь"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "položítʹ zúby na pólku",
      "sense": "to suffer a hardship",
      "word": "положи́ть зу́бы на по́лку"
    }
  ],
  "word": "feel the pinch"
}