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
Yngvildr	-	Ancient Scandinavian
DİLŞAd	-	Turkish
Tshering	-	Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alexandrina	[.æligza:n'dri:nə]
Mihajlo	-	Serbian, Croatian
Goronwy	-	Welsh, Welsh Mythology