scrimp
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My husband and I scrimped and saved for so many years.  | Mi marido y yo economizamos y ahorramos durante muchos años.  | 
May be separate, marginal or scrimped.  | Puede ser separado, marginal o escatimado.  | 
He scrimped and he saved until he had four hundred gold coins.  | Él suele escatimar y guardan hasta que tuvo cuatro cien monedas de oro.  | 
It was later found that the contractor had scrimped on materials and built hollow walls.  | Más tarde se descubrió que el contratista había escatimado en materiales y construyeron paredes huecas.  | 
The wife and I scrimped for over four years to take a trip to Hawaii.  | Mi esposa y yo ahorramos durante cuatro años... para hacer un viaje a Hawai.  | 
We scrimped on everything.  | Hemos ahorrado en todo.  | 
Your heart may rightly feel that you have scrimped on it, for one reason or another.  | Tu corazón puede sentir con razón que has escatimado en él, por una razón u otra.  | 
And it is off to a promising start because they certainly have not scrimped on power.  | Y realmente es prometedor porque, la verdad, no han escatimado en potencia.  | 
Red retired, and Sam scrimped, saved and went into debt to buy the business from him.  | Red se había jubilado, y Sam se había endeudado para comprarle el negocio.  | 
Nevertheless, the loss of the thickness will not repel in the quality of a product for which praises are not scrimped.  | Sin embargo, la pérdida del grosor no repercutirá en la calidad de un producto para el que no se escatiman alabanzas.  | 
Pent up with excitement, many families, who have scrimped and saved for a down-payment, jump for joy when the mortgage lender finally approves their application.  | Pent con emoción, muchas familias, que han scrimped y se guarda para un pago, el salto de alegría cuando el prestamista hipotecario finalmente aprueba su solicitud.  | 
After the war, our parents scrimped and saved enough so that, in due course, they were able to repay their generous benefactor.  | Después de la guerra, nuestros padres vivieron muy simplemente tratando de reembolsar, poco a poco, esta deuda de honor a su generosa benefactora.  | 
As Ann Romano, she battled her ex for child support, scrimped and saved, and discussed virginity with her teen daughters (future stars Valerie Bertinelli and Mackenzie Phillips).  | Como Ann Romano, batallaba con su exmarido por la manutención de sus hijas, economizaba y ahorraba, y conversaba sobre la virginidad con sus hijas adolescentes (futuras estrellas Valerie Bertinelli y Mackenzie Phillips).  | 
I've scrimped and saved for years, you've lost it all.  | Ahorro durante años y me dices que lo perdíste todo.  | 
We all scrimped and saved to give it to him.  | Nosotros estuvimos ahorrando para darle eso.  | 
So I scrimped, and I saved, until I finally had enough put away to buy a medallion.  | Entonces economicé y ahorré, hasta que finalmente tuve suficiente para comprar un permiso.  | 
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