Examples of on a shoestring

• We do not want politics run on a shoestring, leading to poor decisions, poor government and the discouragement of good people from coming into politics.

• Almost all the pilgrimages are financed on a shoestring; the overwhelming majority of the pilgrims come from the poorer sections of society.

• It was said that it was being launched on a shoestring budget—but look at it now.

• However, community health councils have had to operate on a shoestring budget for many years.

• At present, it has to run on a shoestring budget.

• It is impossible to run a large symphony orchestra on a shoestring, or to run good opera cheaply.

• But it faces the problem of funding, which is on a shoestring.

• But new mini-cab firms are cropping up all over the place—often operating on a shoestring—and so many of them are still running about uninsured.