feel the pinch

:  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