skinflint

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who is excessively stingy or cautious with money; a tightwad; a miser.
    — You know, he is quite a different sort from the Public Prosecutor and our other provincial skinflints--fellows who shiver in their shoes before they will spend a single kopeck.

词形变化

skinflints plural

词源

From the phrase skin a flint (“go to extreme lengths for the sake of gain or economy”), from the brittleness and hardness of flint which makes it almost impossible to remove just its skin without shattering it.
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