You don’t want to be penny wise and pound foolish.

The president here is being penny wise and pound foolish.

In other words, one can be penny wise and pound foolish.

Are you being penny wise by shopping in pound shops?

What was that saying about "penny wise and pound foolish"?

"In many things I think we are being penny wise and pound foolish," she said.

People and businesses need to learn to stop being penny wise, pound foolish.

One might well wonder if it is a question here of being penny wise and pound foolish.

"In a lot of ways that's penny wise and pound foolish."

It is a genuinely penny wise and pound foolish decision.

Some of the "cuts" are simply penny wise and pound foolish.

I hope not, because this approach to time amounts to being penny wise but pound foolish.

It's just one more time the phrase 'penny wise' comes to mind."

"I think it's an example of certain employers being penny wise but pound foolish," he said.

It's the definition of being penny wise and pathetically foolish.

Lower quality packaging can be a "penny wise, pound foolish" strategy.

Be sure that you don't be penny wise and pound foolish however.

Penny wise, pound-foolish does not come close to it.

But my mother used to warn me about being a penny wise and pound foolish."

"To think otherwise is penny wise and pound foolish."

"It's very penny wise and pound foolish," the aide said.

But maybe - like our modern attitude to credit - we've become "penny wise and pound foolish."

American medicine is simply socialized badly, penny wise and pound foolish.

As for raising the Medicare age, that looks like a classic case of being penny wise and just plain foolish.

This information exchange can prevent governments from taking decisions that may be penny wise but pound foolish.