Sentences with phrase «of skinflint»

In my most recent article for Canadian MoneySaver, published earlier this month, I set out to learn just how much of skinflint I could be.

Not exact matches

@Peace2All — Yes, it is usually better to help than to not help, but these skinflints have batshlt crazy ideas about the concept of money and taxes and a whole lotta other stuff.

Another way to give him and Sanchez encouragement for the future is for our skinflint boss to get his rear in gear and sign a few winners quickly and not wait till the end of the window trying to scrape a bargain you don't get many of those nowadays.

Good - but in another way sad - to know that the number of die - hards questioning the chihuahua - headed skinflint are ever growing.

Another knave in the Bromley account is Richard Darman, skinflint chief of the Office of Management of Budget.

For he was an incorrigible skinflint, a grasping old fool who had reduced all of human life to the constant acquisition of wealth.

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».

On the way to and from the Chicago Auto Show — overlooking the comedic jackassery Ray provided — our mission was to see how high we could push the mileage on these cars while driving them in the manner of a your average skinflint consumer.

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

You should not let your skinflint - ness deprive you of the opportunity to use the Cornell method.

Author Jeff Yeager met with hundreds of self - described skinflints for his bestselling book «The Cheapskate Next Door: Surprising Secrets of Americans Living Happily Below Their Means.»