0 If you do something on a shoestring, you do it with a very small amount of money:
The film was made on a shoestring.
Many voluntary groups and projects operating on a shoestring are still worried about their future sustainability.
The people running the play group movement have been managing on a shoestring for a long time.
My concern is that they are operating on a shoestring.
Some of the intermediate schemes are operated on a shoestring.
Many voluntary organisations and charities work on a shoestring and may find it difficult to comply without interfering with their genuine, excellent work.
Not only are theatres closing, but those which remain are run on a shoestring.
For a long time they have been running the groups 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.
