penny wise and pound foolish

基本解釋

Let's not be penny-wise and pound-foolish in the new expansion of our production plant.
在我們制造車間新近的擴(kuò)建工程中，我們可不能過份吝嗇，因小失大。
You're nothing more than penny wise and pound-foolish if you pass up an amazing new career opportunity to keep an extra little bit of income.
如果你爲(wèi)了保持額外多那麼一點點的收入而錯過了一個極好的工作機會，那麼你就跟那些“撿了芝麻，丟了西瓜”的人沒有多大區(qū)別。
Asking the workers not to make private phone calls from the office is not likely to reduce the firm's losses, it is just being penny wise and pound-foolish.
要工作人員不在辦公室打私人電話不大可能減少企業(yè)的虧損，那衹是打小段磐而忽略大処。

Obey — with a well-established reputation for penny-wise and pound-foolish approaches to foreign aid in general and a lack of appreciation of Turkey in particular — insisted on cutting the overall amount of U.S. assistance to Ankara in Fiscal Year 1993 and on converting it from a grant aid to loans.
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The Center for Security Policy is profoundly concerned that, if the Clinton Administration has its way, the United States will make penny-wise and pound-foolish reductions in its defense establishment — reductions which are both inconsistent with its abiding global requirements and very costly to reconstruct when, inevitably, it is recognized that such a step is necessary.
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