"on a shoestring" meaning in All languages combined

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Prepositional phrase [英语]

Audio: En-au-on a shoestring.ogg
  1. 預算緊張;用很少的錢 Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: zh-on_a_shoestring-en-prep_phrase-eWMN9Uin Categories (other): 有使用例的英語詞, 英語俗語
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
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          "text": "The first year after we bought the house, we lived on a shoestring, but we survived.",
          "translation": "買完房子的第一年,我們只能勒緊褲腰帶過日子,不過也算是撐過來了。"
        }
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