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.
