What is "scrimp"

Usage examples of "scrimp".

I scrimped and saved, like a cheeseparing miser for the past five years trying to keep his estates in order, his crofts producing, and his vineyards turning a profit single-handed, while he diddled about on the Peninsula.

For years, her bandmates had scrimped to make the rent, had played for little money and less recognition, had hoped that, someday, their chance might come.

The school, a cosmopolitan crammer, which was dead now, like Richard's father, who had scrimped to send him there, used to accommodate a staff of twenty-five and over two hundred pupilsan ecology of estrogen and testosterone, bumfluff, flares, fights, fancyings, first loves.

But people were probably all the better for scrimping themselves a little in order to make this a great feast.

The uncle of indicted patrolman Armando Estrada claimed that over 23 years he scrimped and saved $19,000 in cash, which he stashed in a box in his house.

When the $850,000 runs out, he will have to scrimp until July 1st of next year, when he will pick up another $400,000 that will have to last him until July 1st, 1976.

But this house had none of that, and as she moved through it, Margie could see perfect places for every piece of furniture she and her husband had collected over the years, scrimping to save up the money and restoring the pieces themselves.

Why would the Gods give all their riches to a few, and leave most of their children to scrimp and save, hoping forever to earn enough silver to sleep by an open fire, for enough copper to buy a pot of porridge?

I had to watch my mother scrimp and save and work in a sleazy diner while he got richer and richer instead of rotting in a cell.

And I had to scrimp and save while all the time you were living in a nice house, being waited on, reaping in glory.

But there was no choice, she imagined: larger buildings simply were not available, least of all to charities, which would have to scrimp and save to meet their costs.

He, who now had to scrimp and save in order to afford a trip up to Francistown each year, would be able to eat meat every day and drink Lion Lager with his friends on Friday evenings, generously buying rounds for all.

If you're lucky, you'll be able to scrimp and save and manage your pitiful finances well enough to get yourself a dinky little apartment somewhere so far from New York City that your neighbors think a bagel is a kind of dog like Snoopy!

The lovely new rose bonnet she had scrimped for, saying over and over how buying it was a plain disgraseful waste cause who knows she might never wear this thing again—that pesky hat had gone all lopsided like it was melting and she never even noticed, that's how wore out the poor thing was from no sleep and bad nerves.

You and mum scrimped and saved for ten years to get us out of Tattoo Town, but you were free to do that without the threat of pogroms.