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vb. (present participle of pinch pennies English)
Usage examples of "pinching pennies".
I'm becoming selfish in a way that's much more horrible than if I were some petty chiseler pinching pennies off these people's wages in a sweatshop!
A childhood spent pinching pennies kept her out of taxis as much as possible and although she bitched and complained about the TTC along with most everyone else in Toronto, she had to admit that if you weren't in a screaming rush or too particular about who you spent time crammed up against, it got you where you needed to go more or less when you needed to get there.
I'm betting on Joe's genius as a chef, plus your genius for pinching pennies without cutting quality.
Or here, with Mother drooling over me and Dad pinching pennies and the girls getting sick of the sight of me?