OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 55040

feel the pinch

Meanings (ES + gloss)
pasarlo mal, pasarlas canutas
To suffer a hardship, especially significant financial pressure.
The tramway was offered to the Dublin, Wicklow & Wexford Railway, but that company expressed no interest in it. Then the tramway proprietors decided to electrify their line, and cu…
Working-class families are feeling the pinch in the wake of the recession.
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