Shoestring Phrases

Phrases

• A String Of Pearls (Glenn Miller tune)
• A poor relation
• A poor workman blames his tools
• Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio
• As poor as a church mouse
• Dirt poor
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost (line from nursery rhyme)
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost
• Got the world on a string
• Have a second string to your bow have
• How long is a piece of string?
• I Pity The Poor Immigrant (Bob Dylan song)
• If the shoe fits, wear it
• Like a puppet on a string
• Live on a shoestring
• Mendoza line (A baseball expression denoting a line marking a very poor performance)
• More than one string to your bow
• Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
• One law for the rich and another for the poor
• One two buckle my shoe (line from nursery rhyme)
• Piss poor
• Poor but honest
• Poor little rich girl
• Poor thing but mine own
• Rich man poor man beggerman thief
• Rubber chicken (poor quality or overcooked chicken)
• Rubber chicken curcuit (a speaking or fundraising event at which poor quality meat is served)
• Shoestring budget
• String along
• String someone along
• The Poor Bloody Infantry (term used to describe the British infantry in WWI)
• The rich get richer and the poor get poorer
• The shoe's on the other foot
• There was an old woman who lived in a shoe (line from nursery rhyme)
• Waiting for the other shoe to drop
• When your shoes shine, so do you (Kiwi Shoe Polish advertising slogan)