Meanings of pound-foolish in English

It was an avarice which thwarted itself, a penny-wise and pound-foolish cupidity.

It would be so penny-wise, pound-foolish it would be ridiculous, said the banker.

Penny-wise and pound-foolish, has been the ruin of thousands.

He is the penny-wise and pound-foolish individual, and his methods are "near enough."

He said, Penny-wise, pound-foolish, that's you, Edgar.

The Ancient Company was penny-wise, but in spite of the copybook line, not pound-foolish, as its dividend paysheets conclusively prove.

Agonizingly, I began to see the penny-wise-pound-foolish dictum again at work (as I had, in the later stages, of WCT's short life.)

Yule's recommendations were sanctioned by Government, but his journal bears witness to the prevalence then, as since, of the penny-wise-pound-foolish system in our administration.

If you were not so penny-wise and pound-foolish, you'd go at once and manage to get him to take you for 'better or worse.'