| 词汇 | tight-fisted |
| 释义 | tight-fisted adjective informaldisapprovinguk /ˌtaɪtˈfɪs.tɪd/ us /ˌtaɪtˈfɪs.tɪd/(alsotight) unwilling to spend money: 小气的，吝啬的 Don't wait for Gillian to buy you a drink - she's too tight-fisted.别幻想吉莉恩会给你买饮料——她这人太小气。 Synonyms mean(NOT GENEROUS)mainly UK stingyinformaldisapproving tight(NOT GENEROUS)informaldisapproving Mean with money begrudge cheapskate cheeseparing chintzy frugal frugally miser miserliness miserly money grabber money-grubber money-grubbing penuriously pinchpenny scrooge skinflint stingily tight ungenerous ungenerously tight-fisted | American Dictionarytight-fisted adjective us/ˈtɑɪt ˈfɪs·tɪd/ infml unwilling to spend money Examples of tight-fistedtight-fisted The frontier knows justice, of course, but it is a tight-fisted justice that looks out for number one. It appears to me that the employers have been tight-fisted and even less generous than was the case in the spinning, doubling and weaving sections. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A society that decides to be tight-fisted and selective in granting residence permits, visas, places in holding centres, is a closed and sectarian society. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English He would not describe me in normal circumstances as tight-fisted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should not be tight-fisted about this. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The standard spending assessment locks historical underfunding in place and penalises councils that for one reason or another have been frugal or tight-fisted in the past. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He was small, lame, tight-fisted, and apt to weep under pressure, a performance that could disconcert authors and employees. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The tenor of the film oscillates between tight-fisted noir and chamber drama, but the theme is always the same: cultural and romantic unrest... From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This is done either to deter scroungers or because the person in question is quite tight-fisted himself. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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