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> ティーゼル:
>
> うぐっ！まだ潰れちゃいねえよ  
>  今月の運転資金が、ちいとばかし苦しいから  
>  軽くバイトするだけのこったよ

Teisel: Gaahh! No, it hasn't gone under! We're just, a little in the red this
month, that's all! Just need a little extra cash to make ends meet!

Response I received from someone: Guuu! I’m not bankrupted yet.

I’m just having a bit of a hard time getting some working capital.

I'll just do a bit of part-time work.

軽く = light, a little

バイト = part time job

するだけのこったよ（= するだけのことだよ） = only just do

So I'm only just confused about ちいとばかし苦しいから I've never read or heard ちいとばかし
before so please explain this.
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ちいとばかし苦しいから extra cash to make ends meet
[ちいと](http://19113be104ef68ba6094f31cd078121957609d7b2e189c575dc271cfeda9d93e)
(ちっと) is a colloquial and a little dialectal variant of ちょっと. ばかし is a
colloquial variant of ばかり.

So ちいとばかし is the same as ちょっとばかり or ちょっとだけ ("only a little bit").
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