shoestring
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He finally got some funding from Norman Lear himself and shot the movie on a shoestring budget.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025
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 • Oct. 27, 2025
The cutesy performance shtick around a shoestring variety show — imagine Pee-wee’s Playhouse without the bewitching oddity — grows wearying.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025
"It was all done on a shoestring budget," he said.
From BBC • Sep. 23, 2025
The coach looked like an old gangster: broken nose, a scar on his cheek like a stitched shoestring.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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