Citations:tight-fisted

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English citations of tight-fisted

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  • 1843Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
    But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind-stone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!