cheese-paring

cheese-paring

Actions that highlight one's unwillingness or reluctance to spend money. Primarily heard in UK. Get used to her cheese-paring because she never gives money to anyone.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • come into (some) money
  • come into money
  • be burning a hole in (one's) pocket
  • be burning a hole in your pocket
  • funny money
  • color of someone's money, see the
  • a lot of moola
  • be rolling in money
  • be (right) on the money
  • be pushed for money
References in periodicals archive
If the quantity of work remains the same, this too is a cheese-paring process which will, if not well contained, bring about the results of the second model.
Value for money
And there's been no cheese-paring with the standard of equipment.
First-class kit in maker's `basic' model
'There are many hundreds of level crossings throughout Wales that need our attention, yet the cheese-paring attitude of both the private rail companies and successive governments means that safety has come a very poor second to profit in the industry,' said Dr Marek.
'Safety coming secondto profit'
Nine players out of contract in two months time,it promises to be cheese-paring timed own on Poverty Row.
Len Capeling: We're all doubting the class of Thomas
The format is in fact unexceptionable, but this is a further example of cheese-paring by publishers, who have obliged the author to solve the often quite formidable problems of typography inseparable from a book of this sort.
Manuel de linguistique romane
He said: "During my last six months the Arts Council told us we'd get no grant if we didn't remove our deficit, so we sold our grand piano and stopped recruiting, which is ludicrous cheese-paring."
Orchestras in crisis as CBSO sells to survive
Particularly in network television, this was a time of corporate conglomeration followed by-at least in the news divisions-corporate cheese-paring. Though The Media Show lacks the vacuum-cleaner exhaustiveness of Ken Auletta's telling of the same story, the processes and outcomes of rampant bottom-linism are generally well reported.
The Media Show: The Changing Face of the News, 1985-1990
The program credits William Kennon as set designer and Elsa Ward as costume designer, both regular colleagues of Greenspan and both of a cheese-paring, come-as-you-are temperament suited to impending hard times.
Dead Mother
This ceased only when control of the airline passed on to cheese-paring management of Lucio Tan in 1995
When no news is good news
But its overpaid executives shouldn't think their lazy, supine, cheese-paring, stickin-the-mud Yuletide programming will escape the vigilant eye of canny old Fleet Street.
REPEATS STICK IN THE THROAT
Interest rates are sliced in cheese-paring steps; a token cut in required reserves swells profits for big banks by $1 billion.
The myth of an independent Fed