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2441 flay a flea for the hide and tallow
(flay a flea for the hide and tallow (тж. skin a flea for its hide))жадничать, скаредничать, сквалыжничать; см. тж. flay a flint...the falconer observed, that since he knew the court, it had got harder and harder every day to the poor gentlemen and yeomen retainers, but that now it was an absolute flaying of a flea for the hide and tallow. (W. Scott, ‘The Abbot’, ch. XIX) —...сокольничий заметил, что с тех пор, как помнит себя, бедным дворянам и йоменам из свиты знатных вельмож становится при дворе все хуже и хуже по части довольствия, а уж последнее время так можно и с голоду помереть.
Come on now, hand them over. They're no bloody good to you. You landlords are all the same; you'd skin a flea for its fat. (A. Marshall, ‘In Mine Own Heart’, ch. XVI) — Послушайте, отдайте сапоги. На черта они вам сдались? Вы, помещики, все одинаковы. Из-за пенни удавитесь.
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