feel the pinch
Definition of feel the pinch
: to experience the problems caused by not having enough money or by paying higher costs We are starting to feel the pinch of high fuel costs.
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: to handle or touch in order to examine, test, or explore some quality
: to perceive by a physical sensation coming from discrete end organs (as of the skin or muscles)
: to undergo passive experience of
: sensation, feeling
: the sense of touch
: the quality of a thing as imparted through or as if through touch
: to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument
: to prune the tip of (a plant or shoot) usually to induce branching
: to squeeze or compress painfully
: a critical juncture : emergency
: pressure, stress
: hardship, privation
: substitute
: hit by a pinch hitter
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