cheap out
cheap out
To choose a less expensive option or course of action in order to reduce cost, especially at the expense of quality or reliability. A: "We've had to have so many repairs done to the house over the last year." B: "Well, that's what you get for cheaping out on building materials." Instead of investing the time and money to get the software right from the beginning, they cheaped out and went for the lowest-quality developers they could find.
See also: cheap, out
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- cheapen out
- put (one) to the expense of (doing) (something)
- put somebody to the expense of something/of doing something
- assume liability for
- economize
- economize on
- economize on (something)
- pad (one's)/the expense account
- at any cost
- a creature of habit