cheese-paring

As controversy deepens over its cheese-paring plan to flog off the nation's forests, up pops Warner Bros' belated and say critics mediocre film version of 50s cartoon hero Yogi Bear and his mates in Jellystone Park.

Michael White's diary 2011

No amount of cheese-paring by classicists can dim the brilliance of his luster.

The Greatest of Them All Tom Holland 2011

It's just small things that make a big difference to a small income, the cheese-paring practices of the post-unionised workplace.

TV review: Undercover Boss; True Stories – Voices From the Killing Field 2011

And she did not have to return to her brother's Spartan and cheese-paring court.

Ill Met By Moonlight Lackey, Mercedes 2005

Kennedy writes that the President "paid an enormous price for his cheese-paring budget policies that fatally degraded the military's command-and-control structure."

Ranking the Movie Presidents 2002

He did not scruple to declare aloud that old Humphrey Babington was a thick-headed fool; nor did Humphrey Babington, who, with his ten or twelve thousand a-year, was considerably involved, scruple to say that he hated such cheese-paring ways.

John Caldigate 2004

As for the mad Frenchman with the beard, if you give him so much as a cheese-paring, you b — ch,

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom 2004

Kennedy writes that the President "paid an enormous price for his cheese-paring budget policies that fatally degraded the military's command-and-control structure."

Ranking the Movie Presidents 2002

All the behind-the-scenes cheese-paring of Victorian servants 'quarters still existed on ships like this, unguessed at by the passengers - who would not have cared if they had guessed, so long as their own comfort was assured.

The Cruise of a Deathtime Babson, Marian 1983

‘He was – and a more difficult, curmudgeonly, cheese-paring old party I’ve yet to find.

My Bones Will Keep Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1977