| The skinflint and the loan shark are seen as sources of sawbuck salvation and sanctification. |
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| I'm not a skinflint, but I would like my bank balance to level out for a week or two. |
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| Their skinflint ways caused R. no small degree of humiliation during her growing years. |
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| I was too scared to stand up to them, or to the diner's skinflint owner, who kept finding creative ways to dip into our inadequate tips. |
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| Not that I am a skinflint or unromantic, but it has been refreshing to view the whole event from a neutral standpoint. |
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| Notorious skinflint Scrooge makes an appearance at the Wyvern Theatre on Friday in a bid to raise thousands of pounds for charity. |
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| It's certainly not because I'm a skinflint, production costs and time invested are irrelevant. |
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| Now remember, this is in skinflint New Hampshire, where a request for money for a new light bulb can cause a knockdown, drag-out debate. |
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| I'm a skinflint and I don't want to shell out on Dreamweaver. |
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| Although he's looking to sell it again, Lieberman remains a skinflint. |
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| He is at his best when relieving a skinflint widow of her wealth, sorting out a king's love life or abandoning a band of raggle-taggle Gypsies to become an itinerant actor. |
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| Most businesses in the province have so far proved skinflint in spending on research and development. And a rigged higher-education market could also hobble innovation. |
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| Half-brother Mario had to undergo drug testing after beating his girlfriend, and Christopher wrote a telltale book in 2008 in which he described his sister as a narcissist skinflint. |
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| So you can imagine my shock, on opening the budget, to find that the new-look, skinflint minister plans to spend every bit as much as he forecast in last year's bacchanalia, plus a little more. |
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| Skinflint walkers can walk on by the gatehouse and follow the deep ditch that runs outside the high outer curtain of 14 th-century walls. |
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