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Significados de scrimp em inglês

Subsist on a meager allowance.

Uso de scrimp em inglês
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They would get along; scrimp and save; even move to Brooklyn, maybe.
Bunker Bean
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I'd even scrimp on lunches to buy books I wanted to read.
The Elephant Vanishes
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And so they live beyond their means or else they scrimp and suffer.
Through the Eye of the Needle: A Romance
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He ordered twenty cents worth and made me scrimp along on sixty cents.
Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2
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Then we can scrimp on groceries to pay the doctor's bills.'
Finders Keepers
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You could scrimp and save for Nancy's coming out, and then for Kathleen's.
Mother Carey's Chickens
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But, Ma, what do you want to scrimp like that for!
Half Portions
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But don't scrimp on the microphone: It's key to a good video, he says.
Reuters
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Campa and her colleagues still have to scrimp and scrounge.
Wired
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Also, some ominous comments on what armies spend and what Governments scrimp:-thatis ammunition.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume 1
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Plus, they're incredibly lightweight but don't scrimp on structural integrity.
News.com.au
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And we bought so little, it was hard to scrimp.
The well and the mine
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Why shouldn't she be a little extra giddy because she wouldn't have to scrimp?
The life you've imagined
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Moss and her family scrimp a bit, but Icelanders don't do that, as a rule.
The Guardian
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And this Levi's option doesn't scrimp on the style either, with stripes and leather trim.
Ebony
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The manifestations and passages scarce made a scrimp volume.
Aftermath / Part second of "A Kentucky Cardinal"
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