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Shoestring   /ʃˈustrˌɪŋ/   Listen
Shoestring

noun
1.
A lace used for fastening shoes.  Synonyms: shoe lace, shoe string, shoelace.
2.
A small amount of money.  Synonym: shoe string.



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"Shoestring" Quotes from Famous Books



... bidden. Scheffer untied his shoestring, drew off the dusty, worn-out shoe, and tried the pair in his hand. The ...
— The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... you could have seen him: he was small and tough and inactive beyond the power of imagination to conceive. He wore an ultramarine-blue woollen shirt laced down the front with a pearl-gray, exaggerated sort of shoestring, indestructible brown duck clothes, inevitable high-heeled boots with Mexican spurs, and a Mexican ...
— Sixes and Sevens • O. Henry


Words linked to "Shoestring" :   aglet, shoe lace, shoe, aiglet, shoe string, shoelace, small indefinite amount, shoestring fungus, lacing, small indefinite quantity, shoestring catch, lace


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