cheap skate

a cheap skate

Someone who is reluctant to spend money. Oh, he'll never pay for a fancy hotel suite like that—he's a real cheap skate.

cheap skate

A stingy person, as in He's a real cheap skate when it comes to tipping. This idiom combines cheap (for "penurious") with the slang usage of skate for a contemptible or low individual. It has largely replaced the earlier cheap John. [Slang; late 1800s]

See also: cheap, skate

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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Grimshaw would curl his lip in a sneer and mutter: "The cheap skate. The skunk.

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Watch me go across an' win her from them cheap skates."

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"Well," he snarled, "I suppose I gotta give you cheap skates a drink when I ain't got more'n enough for a good petrification for myself."

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Palace was first broadcast to the world from the infamously scuzzy, bafflingly cheap skate house in Waterloo known as The Palace (RIP).

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One of them, old Tony Moorcraft, told me that Rees and Hopkins pioneered skate and chips rather than cod and chips and a sign in their window announced Cheap Skate and Chips, 2d.

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Of course you can shop where you like and online there are some great deals but failing all that if you are really stuck for a stocking filler or just a cheap skate then how about a drifter chocolate bar for, eh, the man who loves drifting.

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That snappy attitude is also the title of his book so, cheap skate that I am - pounds 120 can buy you a lot of pizza you know - I bought that instead.

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CHEAP SKATES! If the Hollywood comedy Confessions Of A Shopaholic struck a chord but you don't have the Branson-sized credit to go with your addiction, MARIE TURBILL has an ingenious solution - if you can't shop, then swap!

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We quickly learned to do what the locals do at most restaurants and take our own wine, which only goes to prove what cheap skates we are.

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