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The programme also captures the Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, joking with a group of builders that Ms Reeves is the "moneybags" and she is "tightfisted".

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A much more tightfisted healthcare system means that the share of immigrants without insurance is far higher in Texas.

UW alums were encouraged to twist the arms of tightfisted friends and neighbors.

She has assumed such unappealing duties as overseeing who gets paid, with a hand that aides have described as tightfisted.

Criticisms of Biden-era covid relief as too lavish — as evidenced by, ahem, how states are now squandering their surpluses — might also make federal lawmakers more tightfisted.

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