penny wise and pound foolish

Английский Язык - Турецкий язык

Определение penny wise and pound foolish в Английский Язык Турецкий язык словарь

ufak şeylerde hasis büyük şeylerde müsrif

Английский Язык - Английский Язык

Определение penny wise and pound foolish в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь

prudent and thrifty with small amounts of money, but wasteful and profligate with large amounts

intelligent in trivial matters but foolish in important ones

Связанные Термины

don't be penny wise and pound foolish

Don't focus on minutiae and lose sight of the big picture; don't obsess over tiny inconsequential efficiencies while glaring inefficiencies are going on elsewhere

don't be penny wise and pound foolish

Don't be careful when it comes to spending small amounts of money, but careless when spending much larger amounts

penny-wise and pound-foolish

Thrifty about petty matters and wasteful about important matters

Расстановка переносов

pen·ny wise and Pound fool·ish

Турецкое произношение

peni wayz ınd paund fulîş

Произношение

/ˈpenē ˈwīz ənd ˈpound ˈfo͞oləsʜ/ /ˈpɛniː ˈwaɪz ənd ˈpaʊnd ˈfuːlɪʃ/

Этимология

() From the British currency (one penny being 1/100th of a pound or, prior to decimalisation, 1/240th of a pound)