feel the pinch
mainly UK to have problems with money because you are earning less than before:
When my father lost his job and we had to live on my mother's earnings, we really started to feel the pinch.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Earning money
- bank
- base pay
- be quids in idiom
- black money
- blast
- bread
- bread and butter
- breadwinner
- bring sth in
- danger money
- draw
- earn
- fundraiser
- honorarium
- income
- money for old rope idiom
- payday
- payroll
- strike pay
- venal
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