Sentences with phrase «as skinflint»

I'm pretty fed up with the bare - bulb look — it's overused and predictable, although we do like reclaimed pieces from companies such as Skinflint and Trainspotters.»

While Microsoft isn't quite as cheap as a skinflint like myself might like, I'd much rather own it than Twitter.

Not exact matches

maybe if as a «main target» the club had treated him as such and not reverted to being the skinflints we know, made a proper offer when they asked for 60 they would have maybe taken 45 or 50.

As per usual «the ditherer» going for the cheapest option.what happened to mbappe?as if, lol!the best option would be aubemayang.obvious.but the skinflint saves a few shackles & we end up with 3rd rate / choice striker.if that.

He thanked everyone he had ever worked with as well as «the boneheads, philistines and skinflints who said no» when asked for money.

Also worthy of honors are Christopher Plummer as the old skinflint J. Paul Getty in «All the Money in the World»; Ray Romano, as the concerned father of a sick woman in «The Big Sick»; Steve Carell as a dead ringer for tennis hustler Bobby Riggs in «Battle of the Sexes»; and Ben Mendelsohn as King George VI, who gradually finds himself warming toward Winston Churchill in «The Darkest Hour.»

Yet, with his typical dry sense of humour, he also thanked those who had not describing them as «boneheads, Philistines and skinflints», who could all «rot in hell».

However, the same transparency that allows large investors to keep an ETF's price tied to its underlying securities would give skinflints a chance to piggyback off a manager's research by simply choosing to hold the same securities as the fund (although they'd pay a lot in transaction fees if they did this frequently).

If they don't their account is flagged as a non-buyer and they're thrown back into the cloudy waters of pond skinflint.