This week’s theme
Shoes

This week’s words
brogue
revamp
clever clogs
shoestring
bauchle

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(SHOO-string)

MEANING:

noun:	1. A string used to tie a shoe: shoelace.
	2. A small amount.
adj.:	Involving little.

ETYMOLOGY:

From itinerant vendors’ selling of trinkets, threads, shoestrings, and other low-value items. Earliest documented use: 1616.

USAGE:

“‘It could be done on a shoestring -- just a few hundred thousand.’
‘Pesos or dollars?’”
Patrick Dennis; Genius; Harcourt; 1962.

See more usage examples of shoestring in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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