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Scrooge-like adjective

• (of a person or their behaviour) mean with money; miserly.
• "civic leaders were branded Scrooge-like for axeing their festive budget"
Origin: 1970s: from the miserly character Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens's novel A Christmas Carol (1843).


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