English / idiom
Feel the Pinch
MEANING IN ENGLISH
To experience financial hardship or economic distress due to a drop in income or rising costs.
In context
01
As inflation pushed raw material costs higher, factory owners began to feel the pinch and demanded new supplier terms.
02
Household consumers feeling the pinch always look for discounts and bargain aggressively at the grocery market.
Synonyms
Suffer financial strain,experience hard times,be tight on cash
Antonyms
Prosper,live comfortably,be rolling in money
Collocations
begin to feel the pinch,feel the financial pinch,really feel the pinch