penny-pinching

一分钱一分货,一钱不值,一毛不拔,一钱不值的

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adj.形容词 adjective

adj.tight with money

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They deserve every penny and more: booking a four week tour is a huge job.
“Every single witness is inadmissible, hearsay, triple-hearsay,” said assistant state attorney Penny Brill in court yesterday.
She regressed to the mental state of a toddler lost in a J.C. Penny department store.
The other child started by spitting on and pinching her daughter.
“I have not been paid and will not be paid a single penny,” he declared.
In 1603 it was ordered that one quart of best ale, or two of small, should be sold for one penny.
Since the end of 1847, not a penny has come into his own pocket either through piano-playing and conducting, or through teaching.
A system of supplying school-children with penny dinners is the latest philanthropic movement.
In the same year he also manufactured two million penny tokens for our soldiers in Spain, which were not forbidden.
The penny at that time was equal to a shilling of the present day, and would, relatively, purchase as much.

一分钱一分货,一钱不值,一毛不拔,一钱不值的

adj.形容词 adjective

adj.tight with money

Synonyms

Antonyms

They deserve every penny and more: booking a four week tour is a huge job.
“Every single witness is inadmissible, hearsay, triple-hearsay,” said assistant state attorney Penny Brill in court yesterday.
She regressed to the mental state of a toddler lost in a J.C. Penny department store.
The other child started by spitting on and pinching her daughter.
“I have not been paid and will not be paid a single penny,” he declared.
In 1603 it was ordered that one quart of best ale, or two of small, should be sold for one penny.
Since the end of 1847, not a penny has come into his own pocket either through piano-playing and conducting, or through teaching.
A system of supplying school-children with penny dinners is the latest philanthropic movement.
In the same year he also manufactured two million penny tokens for our soldiers in Spain, which were not forbidden.
The penny at that time was equal to a shilling of the present day, and would, relatively, purchase as much.