| 词汇 | shoestring |
| 词源 | shoestring. The expression may have come from faro, but it isn’t recorded until 1904, although shoestring gambler, for a “petty, tinhorn gambler,” is recorded 10 years or so earlier. On a shoestring suggests that one’s resources are limited to the laces of one’s shoes. |
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