feel the pinch

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feel the pinch

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.

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It was in the killing department that the packers had been left most in the lurch, and precisely here that they could least afford it; the smoking and canning and salting of meat might wait, and all the by-products might be wasted--but fresh meats must be had, or the restaurants and hotels and brownstone houses would feel the pinch, and then "public opinion" would take a startling turn. The Jungle by Sinclair, Upton View in context			feel a glow of happiness feel around feel at home feel blue feel fit feel for feel free feel gorge rise feel guilty feel hard done-by feel hot and cold feel in bones feel it beneath feel like feel like a million feel like a new person feel like doing feel oats feel of feel on top of the world feel out feel out of things feel pinched feel sick to stomach feel somehow about feel the pinch feel up feel up to feel way feel with feeling feeling no pain feeling okay feeling okay? feeling puny feet feet of clay feet on the ground fell fellow felt female of the species is more deadly than the male fence fence an animal in fence in fence off fence out fend fend for fend off fender			feel out feel out feel out of place feel out of things feel pain feel pinched feel pleasure feel regret feel remorse feel resentment feel sick to stomach feel small feel small feel small feel small feel somehow about Feel Sorry for Me feel sure of feel terror feel the bottom Feel the Burn! feel the draft feel the draft feel the draft Feel the Force Feel the Funk or Die Feel the Love Feel the Magic feel the necessity for Feel the Pain feel the pinch feel the pulse feel the pulse feel the pulse feel the pulse Feel The Quality Records feel the want of Feel The Wind Feel the Wrath feel uncertain feel under the weather feel uneasy about feel unsure feel up feel up feel up feel up feel up feel up to feel up to feel way feel way feel way feel way feel way Feel Whammy feel with Feel, Inspect, Tighten, Clean, Adjust, Lubricate feel-bad feel-good Feel-Good Factor

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