watch the pennies

English

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watch the pennies (third-person singular simple present watches the pennies, present participle watching the pennies, simple past and past participle watched the pennies)

  1. To be careful about how much one spends; to try to save money wherever possible.
    • 2025 July 9, Dickon Ross, “Cost-effective Royal Train: the King's conundrum”, in RAIL, number 1039, page 3:
      The Royal Household faces very different cost of living pressures to everyone else, but it is still required to watch the pennies (well, the millions anyway).
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