shoestring
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shoestring englanniksi
The string or lace used to secure a shoe to the foot; a shoelace.
(ux)
(RQ:Cervantes Smollett Don Quixote)
An object that is long and thin, like a shoestring ''(sense 1)''.
''Chiefly in'' a shoestring: very little money; a tight budget.
(quote-web)
Of a catch or tackle: made near the ground, close to a player's shoes.
(quote-book)|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons|Putnam|year=1976|page=104|isbn=978-0-399-11779-4|passage=We didn't score in our half of the eighth, but it was only because Ernie's line drive was shoestringed by the Giant left fielder, with Rusty Howarth on second.
(quote-book) of the Indians actually tells his charges to hold up the ball after shoestringing it on the off chance that the umpire might be fooled.