penny-wise

Forbidding private phone calls in the office cannot really reduce the company's expenses; it's just being penny wise and pound foolish .

But they have overlooked this point, penny wise and pound, especially ignored the exciting action.

Mr. Brown bought a cheap truck to make money, but it was too old for long-distance transportation. He was penny wise and pound foolish.

This kind of penny-wise , pound - poor behaviour was just unbelievable.

If patient from examines blindly from the medicine, will often be penny-wise and pound foolish, will create inevitably "troublesome" .

Many women have been penny wise and pound this experience, but hate bitterly later recidivism .

Let's not be penny-wise and pound-foolish in the new expansion of our production plant.

Education budgets cuts are penny wise and pound foolish since public education is an investment in our future.

Refusing to rescue financial systems because it looks too expensive is a classic case of being "penny wise, pound foolish" .

money in repairing the roof, and now the rain has ruined half her furniture- a plain example of penny wise.

You'd better mend your fence falling down, or you will be stolen, don't be penny wise and pound foolish.

I know, but don't be penny wise and pound foolish. They won't last long.

Mr. Smith's fence is rotting and falling down because he wouldn't spend money to paint it . He is penny wise and pound foolish .

Some might say he is penny wise and pound foolish.

If Unions think this is beneficial to them, they are being penny-wise and pound foolish.