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
Indra	IN-dra (Hinduism)	Hinduism, Indian, Hindi, Nepali
Valerian	və-LIR-ee-ən (English)	History, Russian, Ukrainian, Georgian, Romanian
Piet	PEET	Dutch
Simonides	-	Ancient Greek
Seyed	-	Persian
Pamphilos	-	Ancient Greek