| 单词 | tight-fisted |
| 释义 | tight-fisted adjective informaldisapprovinguk/ˌtaɪtˈfɪs.tɪd/us/ˌtaɪtˈfɪs.tɪd/(alsotight)unwillingtospendmoney: 用钱不大方的，吝啬的Don'twaitfor Gillian tobuyyou adrink- she's too tight-fisted.别幻想吉莉恩会给你买饮料——她这人太小气。 Mean with money
tight-fisted| American Dictionarytight-fisted adjective us/ˈtɑɪt ˈfɪs·tɪd/infmlunwillingtospendmoney Examplesoftight-fistedtight-fisted The frontier knows justice, of course, but it is atight-fistedjustice that looks out for number one. From theCambridge English Corpus It appears to me that the employers have beentight-fistedand 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 theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 A society that decides to betight-fistedand selective in granting residence permits, visas, places in holding centres, is a closed and sectarian society. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English He would not describe me in normal circumstances astight-fisted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We should not betight-fistedabout this. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen 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 ortight-fistedin the past. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen 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 betweentight-fistednoir 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 quitetight-fistedhimself. 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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