| 单词 | tightwad |
| 例句 | My father was pretty frantic, but he’d always been a bit of a tightwad, and I told him again and again I was fine. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z He thought a minute then said, “I haven’t been a tightwad all my life, have I?” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Rant To all the tightwads who eat at Old Country Buffet and don't tip. Rant & Rave: Hey, that birthday cake didn't walk to your table! 2011-04-27T20:47:05Z And by “secretly,” I mean I tell everyone it’s my dad’s fault I’m such a tightwad. Moving in brings money fears 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Q: Your longtime producer Jason Blum, a notorious tightwad, suggested that you go back to Australia to shoot "Upgrade." Co-creator of ‘Saw’ and ‘Insidious’ looks forward — and backward — with sci-fi thriller ‘Upgrade.’ 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z He describes himself as a “generous tightwad,” which to me translates as someone more comfortable spending money on others than himself. Nobody puts baby in a cooler! Learning to parent with first-world problems 2014-03-09T00:00:00Z This year the book that leapt into my uneager arms was “Clark Howard’s Living Large in Lean Times,” a tightwad manifesto that’s been lingering on the New York Times how-to best-seller list all fall. Books of The Times: Clark Howard?s ?Living Large In Lean Times? - Review 2011-12-22T23:21:10Z He brags about being a tightwad and how he never drives. Perspective | Ask Amy: In-laws are too self-focused to care about pregnancy 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z And while he was wealthy thanks to his father’s success in the gas station business, Mrs. Trudeau soon discovered that her husband was an exceptional tightwad. The Quiet Comeback of Margaret Trudeau 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z One of them, you might say, was Hollywood’s most notorious tightwad, staving off the terror of poverty by stiffing servants and handing houseguests itemized bills. Review | In ‘Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise,’ working-class Archie Leach becomes a Hollywood legend 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z That year, tightwad Brown vetoed the entire budget. Column: Like Reagan, Schwarzenegger and Brown, Newsom uses veto pen to rein in spending by California lawmakers 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z To be sure — nobody in Dipoto’s position is going to say “we had three or four whales lined up if only our tightwad chairman would have opened up his checkbook.” With little success, doubt Mariners regime will improve this team is justified 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z Dear Carolyn: My friend’s daughter is getting married and the groom’s parents are tightwads. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How to ask groom’s ‘tightwad’ parents — tactfully! — to help pay for reception? 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z And what D.C. fans endured after tightwad Clark Griffith sold Bucky Harris in the late 1920s and traded the rest of the talent away from the Senators in the mid-1930s. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: A little less snarky Washington cynicism on the Olympics, please 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z The results of the survey by CRC Research are consistent with previous polls showing that by and large, Americans are climate tightwads. EXCLUSIVE: One-third of Americans unwilling to spend $1 to fight climate change 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z He noted the court filings suggested Kahler was called a “tightwad” who would borrow instead of buy tools and would thrive on self-importance, trying to portray a perfect marriage. Kansas man’s insanity defense case earns little sympathy from Supreme Court justices 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z The Athletics pull off this tightwad act with exceedingly bright management, but it is an exception. Can LeBron James Teach Baseball Players What They Forgot? 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z I’ve always liked Valentine’s Day, and believe men who dismiss it as commercialised nonsense are joyless tightwads. Confused? Here’s my guide to Valentine’s Day in the #MeToo era | Max Liu 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z His reputation as a tightwad was well earned. John C. Bogle, Founder of Financial Giant Vanguard, Is Dead at 89 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z McCain set about establishing a conservative voting record and a reputation as a tightwad with taxpayer dollars. For McCain, a life of courage, politics came down to 1 vote 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z McCain cultivated a conservative voting record and a reputation as a tightwad with taxpayer dollars. War hero and presidential candidate John McCain has died 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z McCain cultivated a conservative voting record and a reputation as a tightwad with taxpayer dollars. War hero, senator, GOP presidential candidate McCain dies 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Scandalously, though, Deutsche Grammophon, going through a tightwad phase, recorded it 14 years ago not here but in Helsinki with the Finnish Radio Symphony. Cue the mermaids, it's Esa-Pekka Salonen's 'Wing on Wing' 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z Less than a month later, Martin, caricatured by the political cartoonist Herblock as a tightwad with a stiff, high collar, said the prospect of a tax cut was causing “excessive optimism.” A President at War With His Fed Chief, 5 Decades Before Trump 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z The Godard seen here is also deeply acerbic and funny — hardly the earnest tightwad normally shown in strident-artist portrayals. Cannes 2017: New movie about Jean-Luc Godard, from ‘The Artist’ director, shows auteurs can be funny too 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Ofri’s insights are particularly instructive as the medical profession increasingly suffers from tight schedules, packed waiting rooms and tightwad insurance companies. Opinion | Measuring the wonders of an empathetic ear in the doctor’s office 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z The governor’s liberal Hollywood chums battled with the tightwad alumni of the Pete Wilson administration he recruited. Trump's approach might seem new, but Arnold Schwarzenegger tried it first. It was a disaster. 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Major U.S. airlines are carving up cattle class, hoping to nab every customer from the tightwad to the spendthrift amid intensifying competition from discount carriers and declining ticket revenues. U.S. Airlines Offer More Coach Choices 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z “It’s not hard to maintain, you just have to let yourself go,” he explains, before adding that he is also another incongruity in the NBA: a tightwad. Steven Adams interview: 'I’m not trying to be a bad guy' 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z But this terrible austerity is not the natural result of tightwad governance and obsession with belt-tightening. A Safety Net That Works: What America Can Learn From Greece 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Riddle chuckled “that it is well known that ‘TW means tightwad’ ” in terms of company spending on ambiance. Hot sauce headquarters moving to downtown Winston-Salem 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z The tightwad mentality is partly out of necessity, since the campaign is confining operating expenses to a budget built from individual donations that cannot top $2,700 per person during the primary season. How cheap is Hillary Clinton’s campaign? This cheap. 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z For example, specials are recited without prices, making diners who ask for them feel like tightwads. A Review of Lawson Pub in Oceanside 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z But being more than a little bit of a tightwad I was not willing to spring for the ten bucks or so that it normally costs to acquire a Kindle book. One More Way That Amazon Is Watching Me Read 2013-12-05T22:26:00Z “I guess you could say I’m just a New England tightwad.” As Cars Are Kept Longer, 200,000 Is New 100,000 2012-03-16T21:52:57Z Spurned by tapped-out investors and tightwad bankers in challenging times, restaurateur-wannabes are turning to their neighborhoods, and the wider community of the Internet, to finance their dreams. New Restaurants Turn to the Public for Cash 2011-11-09T04:57:24Z The Mariners have to change their tightwad image. With 2011 hopes gone, Mariners must turn focus to the future 2011-07-18T03:32:04Z Another interesting item relates to the origin of the slang term "piker," which, whatever it may have meant originally, is used to-day to designate a timid, close-fisted gambler, a "tightwad" or "short sport." Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z Uncle Scrooge, if you recall, was Donald Duck's tightwad zillionaire relative who wore spats and a top hat even when dabbling in his bullion vault. Scrooge ain't broke and neither is the government 2011-03-10T02:01:00Z From the historic — “How could such a civilized society have produced the Holocaust?” — to the contemporary assessment that Germany is the tightwad of the euro-zone, even while its own economy booms. Berlin Journal: National Dish Comes Wrapped in Foreign Flavoring 2011-01-27T03:31:52Z The grudging person, the tightwad, the man who fails to do his share of the treating, the woman who entertains her guests with inadequate fare—none of these enjoy high social esteem. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z August 20 Addressing Money in Your Online Dating Profile How do you appear financially responsible on Match.com or eHarmony without seeming like a tightwad? Wells Fargo?s Odd Mortgage Question 2010-08-23T17:47:00Z Then try a tightwads' partnership | Zoe Williams All today's stories Last 24 hours 1. Leading tool hire firms have been forced to remove DIY tools after a Which? report reveals safety faults 2010-03-25T00:05:00Z To hate tightwads and never to ask for subscriptions were admirable American traits. H. R. Nor have you ever found a real Muscular who was a "tightwad." How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types "Tell the world that I have wed a tightwad!" Alex the Great You’re too tightwad to hire a taxi, even to try to scare me and make it unpleasant for me.” The Job An American Novel And she can leave the whole kit and caboodle to a cat home in her will if she wants to, which will probably make her tightwad brother spin in his grave. It’s like this, cat Gerald was still the tightwad, and I couldn't live on prospects, no matter how rosy they might be. Owen Clancy's Happy Trail or, The Motor Wizard in California You’d be difficult, too, if you had to try to do business with a bunch of tightwads. The Fighting Shepherdess Oh, the Wonder folks were no tightwads when it came to showin' special agents of the Corrugated around. The House of Torchy Then there'd been tales told by the butcher, the plumber, and half a dozen others, all goin' to show she was a lady tightwad, or worse. Shorty McCabe on the Job They are not tightwads, so they wouldn't hold back on us with their salvation, would they? The Heart's Kingdom "The public is a tightwad," was what she muttered presently, "unless you're willing to compromise or—prove it to them." The Shield of Silence "Ain't it funny, Kitty, how tightwads is always fussy about their feed?" Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures If he doesn't give to charity, he's a tightwad; if he does, it's for show. Best Short Stories There were movies in Scandia Crossing, but only once every two weeks, and it took the Sorensons an hour to drive in—papa was such a tightwad he wouldn't get a Ford. Main Street You've forgotten what a lot of tightwads and petty swindlers they are. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise He's a regular tightwad, and he sticks out for every cent, and he practically lied to me about his ability to pay the rent—I found that out just after we signed up. Babbitt Think I'm so unreliable and tightwad that you've got to tie me down with a contract? Main Street He had been called many things—loan-shark, skinflint, tightwad, pussyfoot—but he had never before been called a flirt. Main Street |
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