Meanings of penny-wise in inglés

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.

The penny-wise economy, too, of the Queen, was rapidly proving a most ruinous extravagance.

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

A Local Board came into existence, and with much hesitation and penny-wise economy inaugurated drainage works.

But it is wonderful what people, penny-wise and pound foolish, will sometimes do to save 2d.

In this, perhaps, there was something of the penny-wise policy, which sprang from one great defect in her character.

And every conflagration also uncovers the fact that there are many penny-wise citizens who purchase this class of indemnity.

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

Throughout this whole African chapter, the darling economy of the Administration was a penny-wise policy which resulted in the usual failure.

But, unluckily, it is easy to find penny-wise people who will prove weak, wasteful, or incompetent in the capital things of life.

Bobus Smith the other night proposed a caricature of a private conference between Hume and Vansittart as a dialogue of penny-wise and pound-foolish.

But penny-wise customers are not jumping on the bandwagon just yet as the iPhones are sold at a hefty premium compared to official prices.

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.'

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