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"Penny pinching" nghĩa là gì?
22 Jun, 2021
"Penny pinching" có penny là đồng xu, pinch là són cho (ai cái gì) -> cụm từ này nghĩa là chắt bóp, hà tiện, chi li.
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Minister of State for Communications Ossian Smyth has insisted (khăng khăng muốn) there will not be “penny-pinching” when the Government makes renewed (làm mới) efforts to hire a director for the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), while playing down a suggestion the salary would have to be as high as €290,000.
As the case against Brockman continues, his former associates and employees have painted a picture of him as a penny-pinching billionaire (tỉ phú) who believed the IRS unfairly went after taxpayers.
My purchases are of the usual bread, eggs, biscuits, instant noodles kind that is the want of any penny-pinching backpacker (du khách) to the Himalayan wonderland that is Ladakh. But for the locals shopping alongside me, it is a whole other story.
They provide serene (thanh thản) respite (nghỉ ngơi) from all the commotion of the city. No tall buildings, noisy traffic or Pret a Mangers. Instead silence. Blissful quiet. And best of all, they’re free - not something you can say about most attractions in the increasingly penny-pinching city.
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