pinch pennies
UK also pinch and scrape old-fashionedto spend as little money as possible:
When we were first married we had to pinch pennies just to get by.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Budgeting money
- a penny saved is a penny earned idiom
- cut
- cut back
- defund
- draw/pull in your horns idiom
- economy drive
- economy-size
- false economy
- horn
- in/out of pocket idiom
- manage
- on a shoestring idiom
- penny
- price-conscious
- put/lay sth on/to one side idiom
- save on sth
- set sth against sth
- skimp
- square
- tighten your belt idiom
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