| 释义 |
Definition of cheese-paring in English: cheese-paringadjective Extremely careful or mean with money. cheese-paring bureaucrats Example sentencesExamples - It is symptomatic of an unacceptable cheese-paring attitude to contemplate immediate reduction in the judicial resource in the Court of Appeal.
- I can't honestly think of any other reason for the latest mean-spirited, cheese-paring cut revealed by the Irish Examiner today.
- In my best and politest southern British accent, I profusely apologised and prostrated myself at the mercy of these cheeseparing economists.
Synonyms thrifty, sparing, economical, saving
noun mass nounMeanness. Richard accused me of cheese-paring Synonyms avarice, acquisitiveness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, penny-pinching, thrift
|