Cheap skate

Anyhow, ten minutes would show whether he was a cheap skate or the real goods.

Again, not being an expert and not wanting to sound like a cheap skate, I asked, “Is there a reason I should choose the $2300.00 one versus the $600.00 one?”

Man wants to spend twenty thousand dollars on a palace of pleasure and worries if I'm gonna think he's a cheap skate.

In the sale shops, the quality of the fastenings is usually proportioned to that of the skate ; but let the iron and wood be as common as the learner pleases, he should have the fastenings good ; and for the common cheap skate they should consist of a good screw to go up into the heel, and a small bar of iron across the tread of the foot, an inch forward from the broadest place, and turned up at the ends to catch the sole of the boot.