penny wise and pound foolish
美式
- 小處精明，大處浪費
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- 釋義
片語
- 1. 小處精明，大處浪費 Forbidding private phone calls in the office cannot really reduce the company's expenses; it's just being penny wise and pound foolish. 禁止在辦公室打私人電話其實不能減少多少開支；反而是因小失大。
知識+
與錢和誠實有關的用語
Penny wise and pound foolish. 因小失大 Money breeds(draws/gets...bad master. 金錢是好的僕役，壞的主人 earn (make/turn) an honest penny. 用正當手段賺錢 honest Injun.[Indian] 絕對不...
千萬不要省小條、開大條啊！
有句諺語. (be) penny wise and pound foolish 大概是類似的意思. Stingy about small expenditures and extravagant with large ones Don't be penny wise and pound foolish.
請問一些中文常用的成語該如何翻成英文(20點喔)
...swine. [對牛彈琴] Cannot see the wood for the trees. [因小失大] Penny wise and pound foolish. [因小失大] To kick against the pricks. [螳臂擋車] Put the...