cheap skate

A stingy person, as in He's a real cheap skate when it comes to tipping. This idiom combines cheap (for "penurious") with the slang usage of skate for a contemptible or low individual. It has largely replaced the earlier cheap John. [Slang; late 1800s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Shaked	-	Hebrew
Pauwel	POW-vəl, POW-wəl	Dutch (Archaic)
Kristiina	KREES-tee:-nah (Finnish)	Finnish, Estonian
Dorin	-	Romanian
Shinobu	shee-no-boo	Japanese
Lena	LE-nah (German, Polish, Italian), LYE-nah (Russian), LEE-nə (English)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Polish, Russian, English, Italian, Portuguese