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1 крохоборствовать
1) General subject: niggle, penny-pinch2) Graphic expression: to be/get in for a penny -
2 скряга
1) General subject: Scrooge, buzzard, cheapskate, chuff, churl, close as a clam, close file, codger (старый), curmudgeon, griper, hoarder of money, hunks, miser, muckworm, niggard, nip cheese, nip farthing, nip-cheese, penny father, penny pincher, penny-father, piker, pinch fist, pinch-fist, pinchpenny, save all, scrape-penny, scraper, screw, skin, skinflint, money grubber2) Colloquial: (старый) codger, nip-farthing3) Dialect: save-all5) Obsolete: lickpenny6) Rare: flint7) Australian slang: cheap skate, tight arse, tight wad8) Scottish language: carl9) Jargon: grab-all, nickel nurser, penny-pincher, pinch-belly, pinch-gut10) Literature: (часто scrooge) Scrooge11) Archaic: carle -
3 жадюга
General subject: pinch fist, pinch-fist, pinchpenny, penny pincher, miser, cheapskate -
4 жмот
1) General subject: miser, penny pincher, money grubber, cheapskate2) Australian slang: cheap skate, tight arse, tight wad3) Jargon: pinch-belly, pinch-gut, tightwad -
5 неважный
1) General subject: bad, baddish, fair to middling, immaterial, inconsiderable, indifferent, inessential, la la, nickel and dime, nickel-and-dimed, nickel-and-diming, nickeled-and-dimed, nickeling-and-diming, no great shakes, non-essential, not much of a..., not very good, of a kind, of no consequence, of no moment, omissible, one eyed, one horse, one-eyed, penny-ante, poor, slight, small, so-so, third-rate, this box will make a table of a kind, trifling, unimportant, of little moment, ropey, nonthreatening2) Colloquial: tin3) Rare: la-la4) Mathematics: insignificant, irrelevant, not good5) Jargon: Cheap John, back-burner, jerk soup, jerk town, jerk water, off base, mickey-mouse, peanut, penny ante6) Makarov: none so good, nonessential, tenuous7) Taboo: common as cat shit, half-assed8) Phraseological unit: not worth a pinch of coon's shit (only CANADIAN, not to be used in USA (coon in USA is a slang for a coloured man))
См. также в других словарях:
penny-pinch — verb spend money frugally; spend as little as possible (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑nickel and dime • Hypernyms: ↑spend, ↑expend, ↑drop • Verb Frames: Somebody s … Useful english dictionary
penny-pinch — pen·ny pinch … English syllables
pinch pennies — phrasal : to practice strict economy there weren t any pennies pinched when it was furnished F.B.Gipson * * * I pinch (or count or watch) (one s) pennies be careful about how much one spends he is pinching pennies to save for a movie | she s been … Useful english dictionary
penny\ pincher — • penny pincher • penny pinching See: pinch pennies … Словарь американских идиом
penny\ pinching — • penny pincher • penny pinching See: pinch pennies … Словарь американских идиом
penny pincher — [penny pinching] See: PINCH PENNIES … Dictionary of American idioms
penny pincher — [penny pinching] See: PINCH PENNIES … Dictionary of American idioms
penny — n. 1) to pinch pennies ( to be frugal ) 2) (misc.) a pretty penny ( a large sum of money ); (BE; colloq.) the penny drops ( somebody finally understands ); (BE; colloq.) to spend a penny ( to use a toilet ) * * * [ penɪ] (BE; colloq.) the penny… … Combinatory dictionary
pinch pennies — {v. phr.}, {informal} Not spend a penny more than necessary; be very saving or thrifty. * /When Tom and Mary were saving money to buy a house, they had to pinch pennies./ [penny pincher] {n.}, {informal} A stingy or selfish person; miser. * /He… … Dictionary of American idioms
pinch pennies — {v. phr.}, {informal} Not spend a penny more than necessary; be very saving or thrifty. * /When Tom and Mary were saving money to buy a house, they had to pinch pennies./ [penny pincher] {n.}, {informal} A stingy or selfish person; miser. * /He… … Dictionary of American idioms
pinch — 1 verb 1 (T) to press a part of someone s flesh very tightly between your finger and thumb, especially so that it hurts: Mum, he pinched me! 2 (T) informal to steal something, especially something small or not very valuable: Someone s pinched my… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
