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scrimp and scrape
vs
tighten one's belt
scrimp and scrape
tighten one's belt
verb
To be more frugal; to make difficult economic savings due to a lowering of expected income.
How often have the words
scrimp and scrape
and
tighten one's belt
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)