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词汇 cheese-paring
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Definition of cheese-paring in English:

cheese-paring

adjective
  • Extremely careful or mean with money.

    谨慎的;吝啬的

    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 noun
  • Meanness.

    吝啬

    Richard accused me of cheese-paring
    Synonyms
    avarice, acquisitiveness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, penny-pinching, thrift
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