A Penny Pincher in Line at the Coffee Shop

River's picture

Today a friend of mine and I went into Starbucks to buy a coffee. I love their coffee, although it costs so much.

Anyway, I was in line and I heard some customers in front of me talking. One of the ladies was talking about the price of the coffee. It is true, it is very expensive. She was saying that her neighbor never goes to Starbucks because she is a "penny pincher". I thought that that would be a good thing to write here so that you can learn the expression.

A penny pincher is a person who never likes to spend their money. They like to save every penny they can. These kind of people are called penny pinchers.

Jix's picture
mexican equivalent

Hi
Thank you, I've always wondered how to translate our local slang word "codo/a", the literal translation of codo is elbow, but as I said that word is used as slang too.

Saludos
Jixcito =)

Submitted by Jix on Thu, 03/13/2008 - 22:37.
Treefrog's picture
Thanks for explaining this.

Thanks for explaining this. Penny pincher. Interesting. THanks Jixcito for the Spanish version of that too.

Submitted by Treefrog on Fri, 03/14/2008 - 09:56.

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