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Colloquial: to be tight as a clam -
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1) General subject: be secretive2) Colloquial: tight as a clam -
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1) General subject: avaricious, chary, cheeseparing, churlish, close, close as a clam, close fisted, close-fisted, costive, covetous, curmudgeonly, grasping, griping, grudging, handfast, hard, hard fisted, hard-fisted, illiberal, managing, mean spirited, mean-spirited, miser, miserly, narrow fisted, narrow-fisted, near, near the bone, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny pinching, penurious, pinching, pinchpenny, poor, scanty, screwy, scrimpy, skimpy, sparing, stingy, tight, tight fisted, tight-fisted, ungenerous, mean, closefisted, short (перен. short on smth; Paladino lays out plan but is short on details - Паладино излагает план, но скуп на детали; Lisa Maldonado is short on facts and long on personal attacks - Лиса Мальдонадо скупа на факты, зат)2) Colloquial: cheese-paring, mingy, penny-pinching4) American: Scotch5) Poetical language: nigh6) Rare: saving7) Jargon: penny-pincher, small, snide, (прижимистый) chintzy (Don't be chintzy. Give thе man a dollar for a cup of coffee. Не будь скупым. Дай мужику доллар на чашку кофе.), cheap, cut-rate cut rate, skin, tightwad8) Makarov: churly, ironfisted, lean (о стиле, слоге), shabby9) Taboo: tight as a fart, tight-assed10) Christianity: greedy11) Phraseological unit: close as wax (Miserly.) -
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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
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