- tightfisted (with money)
- tightfisted (with money) & closefisted (with money)Fig. very stingy with money. •
The manager is very closefisted with expenditures.
•My parents are very tightfisted with money.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
tightfisted (with money)
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