Word.ws English Dictionary

feeling the pinch

feeling the pinch is the present participle and gerund of feel the pinch.

Meaning of feel the pinch

Verb

feel the pinch (third-person singular simple present feels the pinch, present participle feeling the pinch, simple past and past participle felt the pinch)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To suffer a hardship, especially significant financial pressure.
    • Working-class families are feeling the pinch in the wake of the recession.

Questions about feeling the pinch

What is feeling the pinch the present participle and gerund of?
Feeling the pinch is the present participle and gerund of feel the pinch.

Words near feeling the pinch in the dictionary

  1. feeling someone's collar
  2. feeling sorry for
  3. feeling ten feet tall
  4. feeling the Bern
  5. feeling the burn
  6. feeling the pinch
  7. feeling up
  8. feelingful
  9. feelingless
  10. feelinglessly
  11. feelinglessness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: feeling the pinch (page history and authors); feel the pinch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “feeling the pinch.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/feeling_the_pinch. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.