跟學口語:如何說"手頭緊" 

金融危機席捲全球，越來越多的公司企業感到經濟拮据，有些甚至已經開始通過裁員和精簡部門設置來改善當前的經濟狀況。在這樣的大環境下，作爲小職員的我們自然也是銀包縮水，With the spread of global financial crisis, people in our country also feel the pinch.

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Feel the pinch這個短語一般都用來形容財政困難，手頭拮据等狀況，作此解釋也是源於pinch這個詞有“困境、困苦”等意思。

If someone is short of money or feeling restricted in some other way, they are feeling the pinch.

再看一個例子：

Shopkeepers are beginning to feel the pinch because no one has a lot of money to spend these days.

店主們開始感到處境困難了，因爲近來大家都沒什麼錢買東西。