scrimp
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However, I don’t want my son to think that I will take care of everything and that he doesn’t have to work hard and scrimp and save.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 6, 2026
"It can be really really hard when you're having to scrimp and save and spend so much time thinking and organising and figuring out where the food is going to come from," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025
You might want to scrimp and save, but this isn’t the time for that.
From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2024
The result is that many families shoulder the work themselves, losing out on paid employment, or elderly people scrimp on needed assistance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2024
This book was too important to scrimp on details.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
Down the hall, 56-year-old Janine Cox gets an occasional bag of chips from the vending machine and scrimps to add to the collection plate at church.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2023
Don’t let all this talk of characters give you the impression that Vikings scrimps on the action, though.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 13, 2017
If I have one criticism of Passan’s book, it is that he scrimps on the history of pitchers’ arms.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2016
Yet no matter how much the 58-year-old scrimps and saves, shopping at discount stores, she never has enough.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2016
Na, he seldom scrimps 't to them 'at follows his biddin'.
From Warlock o' Glenwarlock by George MacDonald
I grew up in an era where you scrimped and saved and did not indulge in luxuries.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 6, 2026
Perhaps they might think of their parents who weren’t able to have a “maximum level of enjoyment” while they scrimped and saved to come up with $86,926 for tuition and fees each year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025
"We scrimped and saved. My wife had to go out and find a part time job. I had a young baby and daughter and milk tokens was the only thing I was entitled to."
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2024
She scrimped to buy him his first electric guitar and she encouraged him to be a musician.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
I’d scrimped and saved my tuck-shop money and my CD money to buy them.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
“We have been scrimping for a long time.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
We’ve been scrimping for a long time, and I feel it’s okay to start using some of our nonretirement savings for home improvements and personal wants.
From MarketWatch ● May 21, 2026
"It's literally scrimping and scraping to be able to manage to get one lesson a week," she says.
From BBC ● May 24, 2025
Dick Rutan achieved celebrity and was in demand on the speaker circuit but didn’t gain the fortune he had expected after scrimping for years to get Voyager aloft.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024
I did not see why all our relations were rich, and why we had to be always scrimping and missing everything.
From Stories Worth Rereading by Various
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