tight-fisted

Historical Examples

• Oh, but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge!

  Christmas-Tide

  Elizabeth Harrison

• Unfortunately, he was tight-fisted, and the mother pleaded in vain.

  An Englishman in Paris

  Albert D. (Albert Dresden) Vandam

• Tight-fisted where the money is, sir, but—that's Scotch, you know.

  The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel

  Mary E. Hanshew

• For many years he has had an enviable record as a tight-fisted, hard-headed administrator of these important funds.

  The Great Gray Plague

  Raymond F. Jones

• Folks say I'm tight-fisted—that I'm a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, clutching miser.

  A Christmas Carol

  C. Z. Barnett