Frugal Phrases

Phrases

• A penny saved is a penny earned
• A poor relation
• A poor workman blames his tools
• Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio
• As poor as a church mouse
• Dirt poor
• I Pity The Poor Immigrant (Bob Dylan song)
• Mendoza line (A baseball expression denoting a line marking a very poor performance)
• Not gonna do it. Wouldn't be prudent. (A catchphrase from Saturday Night Live)
• Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
• One law for the rich and another for the poor
• Piss poor
• Poor but honest
• Poor little rich girl
• Poor thing but mine own
• Rich man poor man beggerman thief
• Rubber chicken (poor quality or overcooked chicken)
• Rubber chicken curcuit (a speaking or fundraising event at which poor quality meat is served)
• The Poor Bloody Infantry (term used to describe the British infantry in WWI)
• The rich get richer and the poor get poorer