Meaning of cheap skate | Babel Free

Definitions

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cheap, skate.

Examples

“Anyhow, ten minutes would show whether he was a cheap skate or the real goods.”

“Again, not being an expert and not wanting to sound like a cheap skate, I asked, “Is there a reason I should choose the $2300.00 one versus the $600.00 one?””

“Man wants to spend twenty thousand dollars on a palace of pleasure and worries if I'm gonna think he's a cheap skate.”

“In the sale shops, the quality of the fastenings is usually proportioned to that of the skate ; but let the iron and wood be as common as the learner pleases, he should have the fastenings good ; and for the common cheap skate they should consist of a good screw to go up into the heel, and a small bar of iron across the tread of the foot, an inch forward from the broadest place, and turned up at the ends to catch the sole of the boot.”

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