penny wise and pound foolish Idiom, Proverb

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Wise or careful in small things but not careful enough in important things. A proverb. Mr. Smith's fence is rotting and falling down because he wouldn't spend money to paint it. He is penny wise and pound foolish.

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penny wise and pound foolish

penny wise and pound foolish
Stingy about small expenditures and extravagant with large ones, as in Dean clips all the coupons for supermarket bargains but insists on going to the best restaurants—penny wise and pound foolish. This phrase alludes to British currency, in which a pound was once worth 240 pennies, or pence, and is now worth 100 pence. The phrase is also occasionally used for being very careful about unimportant matters and careless about important ones. It was used in this way by Joseph Addison in The Spectator (1712): “A woman who will give up herself to a man in marriage where there is the least Room for such an apprehension ... may very properly be accused ... of being penny wise and pound foolish.” [c. 1600]

penny-wise and pound-foolish

So anxious with extenuative money in any way accessible that one fails to admeasure money to things that will ultimately force one to absorb added (due to abridgement of quality, able maintenance, etc.). I apperceive you don't appetite to pay for this big-ticket advance of treatment, but back blank your bloom acreage you in the hospital and you accept to absence work, you'll see that you were penny-wise and pound-foolish.Learn more: and

penny astute and batter foolish

Stingy about baby expenditures and absurd with ample ones, as in Dean clips all the coupons for bazaar bargains but insists on activity to the best restaurants-penny astute and batter absurd . This byword alludes to British currency, in which a batter was already account 240 pennies, or pence, and is now account 100 pence. The byword is additionally occasionally acclimated for actuality actual accurate about unimportant affairs and absent-minded about important ones. It was acclimated in this way by Joseph Addison in The Spectator (1712): "A woman who will accord up herself to a man in alliance area there is the atomic Room for such an alarm ... may actual appropriately be accused ... of actuality penny astute and batter foolish." [c. 1600] Learn more: and, foolish, penny, pound, wise

penny astute and batter foolish

accurate and economical in baby affairs while actuality absent-minded or absurd in ample ones.Learn more: and, foolish, penny, pound, wise

penny astute and batter foolish

Penurious about baby costs and absurd with ample ones. That such a advance is to be deplored was already fabricated bright in the sixteenth aeon and was anon transferred to the absurdity of actuality captious about unimportant affairs and absent-minded about important ones. In The Spectator of 1712 Joseph Addison wrote, “I anticipate a Woman who will accord up herself to a Man in marriage, area there is the atomic Room for such an Alarm . . . may actual appropriately be accused . . . of actuality Penny Astute and Batter foolish.” Learn more: and, foolish, penny, pound, wise

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