Exempel på scrimp

• They are people who have scrimped and saved, who have been careful over the years and who find sudden and violent increases in rates a terribly heavy burden for them.

• They got a brand-new home, while the widow who had scrimped and saved for years in the most extraordinarily difficult circumstances had to go round the second-hand shops.

• There is one important group of old-age pensioners for whom no relief has been announced today—those who have scrimped and saved to pay for their retirement.

• Possibly because the production was scrimping on talent fees.

• Along the way he strung tennis rackets, picked fruit and endured a time of scrimping and saving.

• After more than a year of scrimping, saving, working day and night and creating a home business on the side, she finally saves enough to open her own shop.

• One-fifth of the population are so poor that they scrimp themselves of the very necessities of life.

• In the main, people have to scrimp and strain already.

• People will scrimp and save to ensure that their children get that kind of education.

• They would be bitterly resentful if they had to scrimp and save to find the £10 or £20 when they were responsible dog owners.

• One can scrimp and save, but the end product will not last or be of good quality, and ultimately the next generation will not bless us for it.

• Of course some rich men are major art purchasers, but there are equally a great many who scrimp and scrape to buy works of art from living artists.

• The prospect of leaving his wife penniless is deeply worrying to the service man, but all he can do is scrimp and save until he dies.

• They can scrimp themselves, they can starve their little children, but here is a charge they have to meet, and they have attempted to meet it.

• The reality of being very poor is that you save and scrimp for things that you know are essential but for which you do not have enough money.