無む理り算さん段だん

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

scraping together money; raising funds by straining one's credit

A yojijukugo describing the act of somehow managing to raise money, often by pushing one's financial limits or borrowing beyond normal means. Used as a noun or with する.

• 開かい業ぎょう資し金きんを無む理り算さん段だんして、なんとか店みせを始はじめた。

  I scraped together the startup funds and somehow managed to open the shop.

• 彼かれは借しゃっ金きんを重かさねて無む理り算さん段だんしたが、結けっ局きょく事じ業ぎょうは失しっ敗ぱいした。

  He strained his credit to raise the money, but in the end the business failed.