cheaps out
Goes bargain basement
To cheap out is to spend less than the situation warrants, usually resulting in inferior quality or inadequate results.
Someone who cheaps out on materials gets a shoddy product; someone who cheaps out on a tip leaves too little.
They cheaped out on the wedding catering and everyone noticed.
The phrase implies cutting corners where generosity or investment was called for.
- stinginessExcessive reluctance to spend
- penny-pinchingExtreme reluctance to spend
- pinching penniesObsessive spending restraint
- economizingReducing expenditures deliberately
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
neglecting · cost-cutting · nickel and dime · saving · dollar store · bottom dollar · miserliness · trade-offs · skimping · exploitation · scrimping · bare minimum · selfishness · tightfistedness · cost-benefit analysis · cutting corners · cuts corners · shoddy
cheaps outsplurges
Spends lavishly on treats
goes all out · goes the extra mile · pulls out all the stops · shells out · indulges
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