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"Tight-fisted" nghĩa là gì?
08 May, 2021
"Tight-fisted" = tay nắm chặt -> nghĩa là không muốn bỏ tiền, keo kiệt.
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And while critics have pointed out that US aid (hỗ trợ) to India is still too stingy (keo kiệt), compare that to Washington's tight-fisted approach to Brazil: despite repeated appeals (yêu cầu khẩn khoản) for help from Brazilian officials, Washington has doled out just $19.7 million in pandemic-related aid over the past year, including less than $2 million for hard-hit Amazonian communities as they were literally fighting for breath.
Catalans have a reputation (danh tiếng) throughout Spain for being tight-fisted and miserly, particularly when it comes to money. Is there any truth to this stereotype and how did it come about?
Despite the pandemic, priority sector benefit and a more than normal returns, banks were tight-fisted in lending to microfinance (tài chính vi mô) sector in the last financial year, according to P. Satish, the executive director of Sa-Dhan, an industry body comprising 225 microfinance institutions across India.
We can’t thank North Platte enough for the outpouring (dạt dào tình cảm). It just seemed like in the middle of a pandemic people would be keeping real tight-fisted on their money. We actually saw an increase in donations.
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