feel the pinch

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

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.

feel the pinch

Be affected by hardship, especially straitened finances. For example, This job pays much less, so we're bound to feel the pinch. [Mid-1800s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Jessalyn	JES-ə-lin	English (Rare)
Aikaterine	-	Greek, Ancient Greek
ChÂU	-	Vietnamese
Cyrus	['saiərəs]
Tobias	to-BEE-ahs (German), tə-BIE-əs (English)	Biblical, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, English, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Ivanka	-	Bulgarian, Czech, Slovak, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene