they'll have to practice some penny-pinching if they want to save for a house
reusing your tea bags is perhaps taking penny-pinching too far
Recent Examples on the WebHowever, recent reports indicate that the bakery-café chain might be cutting corners in the name of efficiency and penny-pinching.—Angela L. Pagán / The Takeout, Quartz, 11 Mar. 2024 But even those major cost-cutting moves weren’t enough to keep Musk from turning to penny-pinching.—Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 19 Jan. 2023 Schwartz also specifically cited Sullivan’s Crossing in noting that acquiring the show wasn’t any cheaper than licensing a new series from a third-party studio as a way of pushing back at the notion that The CW was penny-pinching.—Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023 In the face of its struggling gaming business, and penny-pinching around AI endeavors at corporations, experts remain cautiously optimistic.—Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 25 May 2023 There’s a simple motivation behind this penny-pinching: Parent company Alphabet is under pressure.—Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2023
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