pound-foolish
Example Sentences
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“Schools think about these institutional debts in a way that is very penny-wise and pound-foolish, and it’s preventing people from participating in the economy,” said Mike Pierce, executive director of Protect Borrowers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
Ms Devlin added the move is a "penny-wise and pound-foolish approach to workforce".
From BBC ● May 15, 2023
That could make the squishy “engagement” and meager traffic that local news sites have seen as benefits of giving content to Twitter seem penny wise and pound-foolish.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 4, 2022
But the strategy is penny-wise, pound-foolish — not to mention cruel.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2022
Not a little, too, of Sir George's economy was of "the penny-wise and pound-foolish" kind.
From Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. by John M'lean
