scrimp and save
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However, I don’t want my son to think that I will take care of everything and that he doesn’t have to work hard and scrimp and save.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026
She meets and marries fellow student Jen Chao-Pe, and together they move into a dilapidated walk-up in Washington Heights, where Agnes learns to scrimp and save and paint her own walls.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2025
"It can be really really hard when you're having to scrimp and save and spend so much time thinking and organising and figuring out where the food is going to come from," she says.
From BBC • Aug. 16, 2025
He grew up in rural Catalonia, where as a child his parents had to scrimp and save to buy the four-volume set of anatomy textbooks he now keeps on a shelf in his office.
From Science Magazine • May 15, 2024
"I've worked, heaven knows, like any slave, I've learned the lesson of scrimp and save, "Kept a good horse, but dressed like a clown— And I've not a dollar to call my own.
From The Cornflower, and Other Poems by Blewett, Jean
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