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shoestring

[shoo-string] / ˈʃuˌstrɪŋ /










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“Here’s the thing, most of these rural hospitals are on a shoestring,” Melnick said.

From Los Angeles Times

It was emblematic of her and Corbet’s then-burgeoning philosophy: of making lavish films on a shoestring, using stunning foreign environments to portray a bygone America and roping crew members and family into the collaboration.

From Los Angeles Times

Over the past five years, Tartt, Bandy and a shoestring staff have trained some 60 people on farming the mountain valleys.

From The Wall Street Journal

He finally got some funding from Norman Lear himself and shot the movie on a shoestring budget.

From The Wall Street Journal

Corman, affectionately known as the “Pope of Pop Cinema,” was a god of low-budget horror, a maestro who could turn a shoestring budget into something glittering, gothic, and gloriously unhinged.

From Salon