Idioms for people who are tight with money [closed]

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Is there an idiom which describes a person who is tight with his/her money, never wants to chip in or treat themselves or others and worries too much about money.

Solution 1:

What about a Scrooge, from Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

Solution 2:

Consider, tight as a drum

ALso, tight as Midas's fist very stingy. He won't contribute a cent. He's as tight as a drum. Old Mr. Robinson is tight as Midas's fist. Won't spend money on anything.

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs

Also, penny-pincher, tightwad, cheapskate, skinflint Ngram, and tightfisted

penny-pincher: n. someone who is very miserly; someone who objects to the expenditure of every penny. If you weren’t such a penny-pincher, you’d have some decent clothes.

McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

tightwad: n. slang chiefly US and Canadian a stingy person; miser

cheapskate: a stingy person; miser

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Solution 3:

My preferred term (possibly due to UK bias) is skinflint, which pretty much covers all of your criteria: someone all-round obsessed with accumulating money and hanging on to it.

Other possibilities include miser or penny-pincher (primarily people who are reluctant to spend), or moneygrabber or hoarder (for people who relentlessly accumulate).

Solution 4:

Tight as a duck's arse
Tight as a gnat's chuff