Sentences with word «skinflint»

On the flip side, women often regard men who don't offer to pay as skinflint — peril awaits with both options.

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.

Renowned Skinflint with 999,988,854 BCB points.

i can forgive pop for having a bad day because in private he's seen as anything but difficult or petty (think jack benny for all you old - timers — a public skinflint and diva, but privately humble and generous)-- with jackson you had to flip the script, and the public man was as good as it ever got by a long shot.

You mugs think the same way as the board and this is the reason we WO N'T win anything this season because we don't have the intent and the club is skinflint in its mentality.

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

MYTH: Only bohemians and skinflints use cloth diapers Truth: Nowadays, all kinds of families use cloth diapers, for health, environmental and financial reasons.

The notorious skinflint Silver often romped at the Red Carpet Inn on Northern Boulevard, which boasts a view of the state Capitol's rooftop — but little else.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

Maybe it's my inner skinflint talking, but I can not fathom why anyone would drop $ 46 on a lap tee that your rug rat is going to outgrow within the next seven minutes.

He was the world's greatest skinflint except for his penchant for stupid real estate investments.

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.»

@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.

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.

Stan is a skinflint.

Ogden will soon have more bread — figuratively — than a skinflint like him should ever need.

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.

any chance of righting this ship ended two seasons ago when the club didn't re-up Sanchez, after his glorious season, (he should have been given the armband) then failed to get the proper reinforcements at the Striker and DM positions during that offseason... we could have been a contender if it weren't for our skinflint owner and self - absorbed arrogant manager, who is far too fragile nowadays to be in the same locker room with charismatic and driven players

it proveswe have immense talented young players if they are given a chance as in thepast we had to play bellerin now one of the best in prem every media idiot media was condemning wenger that he was a skinflint when he signed holding for 2 mill are they saying it now another star for gunners and england

The Bristol Old Vic production, in a limited run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music opening tonight and closing May 27, stars Irons as the skinflint paterfamilias... Read

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».

The stripper DX is gone, and with it goes the skinflint's ability to buy a Civic with crank windows and no air conditioning.

Both the base LE and S have steel wheels for the skinflints.

The few details released so far by Nissan suggest a car that, like Toyota's youth - oriented Scion models and, higher on the price scale, Audi's A3, will be stingy with fuel but won't be underpowered or so cheaply built as to mark its owner as a skinflint.

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

The other is to be a skinflint like me and do it yourself.

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