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penny-wise
adjective
- greatly concerned with saving small sums of money
- penny-wise and pound-foolishpenny-wise and pound-foolish careful about trifles but wasteful in large ventures
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Alan: They had the penny-wise-and-pound-foolish mentality that a lot of corporations do.
“Not spending the money here is about as penny wise and pound foolish as I can think of,” he said.
Nowadays it is more fashionable to speak of this kind of thing as "penny wise and pound foolish."
Still, there is such a thing as being 'penny wise and pound foolish.'
Not a little, too, of Sir George's economy was of "the penny-wise and pound-foolish" kind.
But it is wonderful what people, penny-wise and pound foolish, will sometimes do to save 2d.
The small force our Government (penny-wise and pound foolish) had sent against the Afghans were overwhelmed.
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