She believes that by focussing on activities and skill development, it is possible to develop an outdoor learning curriculum on a 'shoe string'.

She had had to take them off to work her shoe strings.

It could be that we expect too much of a free service run on a shoe string.

His shoe string, big as it was, was stretched to the danger point.

The growing reality that more people (middle class and poor) are holding on by a shoe string.

Just goes to show that rocket science can't be done on a shoe string.

South Africa/surrounding area on a shoe string really...have we got any chance?

There was the faintest gleam of triumph in Rhett's eyes as he bent to tie Bonnie's shoe string.

His operation has since survived on a shoe string and Gingrich's sharp mind and knack for attracting publicity, whether good or bad.

First he went to Leipzig, where he tried to make ends meet by selling shoe strings.