tacaño

stingy

Parece Jack el tacaño. David Lee.	He looks like a jack-o'-lantern. David Lee.
Si el tacaño de Toyama me hubiera dado el dinero, no habría ocurrido esto.	If stingy Toyama had given me the money, this wouldn't have happened.
Para el tacaño mendigo, que nunca había dado a los demás sino que siempre estuvo acostumbrado a recibir hasta entonces, era muy generoso entregar tres granos.	To the stingy beggar, who had never given to others but only received until that time, it was a great generosity to give the three grains.
No había grandes bonificaciones en los años '40, particularmente en Cuba, donde la misión de Cambria para el tacaño Clark Griffith era encontrar talento baratísimo entre atletas de menos clase, desesperados para firmar por casi nada.	There were no big bonus deals in the 1940s, especially in Cuba where Cambria's mission for the penny-pinching Clark Griffith was to find dirt-cheap talent among lower-class athletes desperate to sign for next-to-nothing.
Para el tacaño mendigo, que nunca había dado a los demás sino que siempre estuvo acostumbrado a recibir hasta entonces, era muy generoso entregar tres granos.	Then he plucked three grains from the corn and stingily gave them to the king. To the stingy beggar, who had never given to others but only received until that time, it was a great generosity to give the three grains.
Jeff Yeager es el autor de The Ultimate Cheapstake's Road Map to True Riches (El tacaño máximo y su ruta a la verdadera riqueza) y The Cheapskate Next Door (El mezquino de al lado).	Jeff Yeager is the author of The Ultimate Cheapskate's Road Map to True Riches and The Cheapskate Next Door.
Jeff Yeager es el autor de The Ultimate Cheapstake's Road Map to True Riches (El tacaño máximo y su ruta a la verdadera riqueza) y The Cheapskate Next Door (El mezquino de al lado).	But that would just break my great-grandmother's heart. Jeff Yeager is the author of The Ultimate Cheapskate's Road Map to True Riches and The Cheapskate Next Door.
El tacaño de mi tío ni siquiera nos pagaba las golosinas.	My cheap uncle wouldn't even pay for our candy.