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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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feel the pinch
to experience the effect of having less money. Consumers have felt the pinch of higher gasoline prices.
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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.
 
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