It is here that our societies become tight-fisted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Brave New Competitive World] Reference

I was the Texas Governor, tight-fisted and austere.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Project For a New American Century* - An Ode To George Bush and Leo Strauss] Reference

Most dwarves are pretty tight-fisted about tools and weapons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gates of Thorbardin]

Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story] Reference

"Oh but he was a tight-fisted hand ... one degree at Christmas".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature] Reference

It was well known that Mr Gascoigne was tight-fisted about money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hercule Poirot's Casebook]

No mean achievement during these turbulent and tight-fisted times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whispers Of Betrayal]

"There's 'tight-fisted' and there's 'cautious,'" the Butterfly smiled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myth-Nomers And Im-Pervections]

Depending on the school, those amounts may be generous or tight-fisted.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Much Pocket Money] Reference

Malone didn't remember ever having seen an especially tight-fisted one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out Like a Light] Reference

There's less private aid, thanks to banks 'tight-fisted lending policies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Karen Stabiner: The College Insider: Admissions Freak Out Countdown #4: Paying the Unpayable: Recession-Proof College Costs and Your Shrunken Wallet] Reference

Many followers of the program blamed its conservative, tight-fisted ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Saner Approach to College Football] Reference

UNRWA statistics for the past decade show a similarly tight-fisted Turkey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turkey's Two-Faced Aid For Gaza] Reference

Smitty had to be the most tight-fisted man in the United States government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Next Of Kin]

Of course, we were pretty modest and tight-fisted with the construction budget.    From Wordnik.com.  [Real Estate Live] Reference

It's not that banks don't have the money, they have just been rather tight-fisted.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2008] Reference

Wal-Mart Stores, which benefits from tight-fisted consumers, did well in December.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consumer Goods Feel Pinch] Reference

A note of complaint, and a tight-fisted whine similar to the one in Stara's voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lark And The Wren]

Had the Vestrit family come on hard times or was this just Kyle being tight-fisted?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mad Ship]

And it occupied the center of the green, gardenlike lot of tight-fisted old Harris.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Weapon Shops of Isher]

But the reality now for many borrowers is that lenders are already more tight-fisted.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2007] Reference

"Well, the words 'tight-fisted' and 'penny-pinching' are the first that come to mind.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Myth-Nomers And Im-Pervections]

I am not saying that there are no couch poatao tight-fisted Americans or no lazy Chinese.    From Wordnik.com.  [9/11, Antisemitism and Denial] Reference

And in the past, Iran has been notoriously tight-fisted when it comes to giving out money.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2006] Reference

Ye'll have noticed Dougal's a thrifty man, and Colum's twice as tight-fisted wi 'his coin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference

I close by telling you that Reid keeps a tight-fisted hold on the Nevadan Democratic Party.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Reid and the Nevada lawsuit against Sequoia] Reference

The nervousness at banks is reflected in their increasingly tight-fisted approach to lending.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. Firms Gird for Hits and Draw On Credit Now] Reference

It's not just new franchise owners reeling over tight credit markets and tight-fisted consumers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recession, layoffs fuel many to start small businesses] Reference

And in the past, Iran has been notoriously tight-fisted when it comes to giving out money -- Rob.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2006] Reference

That's particularly true in an export-driven economy like Germany, whose consumers are notoriously tight-fisted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Germany's Dead-End Car Incentives] Reference

Now reports say this famously tight-fisted politician used state planes, crew and fuel to ferry his family around.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 10, 2009] Reference

The boy was breaking his freaking heart with the tight-fisted dinginess to the only mother figure in his world right now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strategic Engagement]

He was a Northern man, but she knew him to be a tight-fisted yankee, whose whole counsel would go against liberating the negroes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life] Reference

Government Backing Indeed, with banks becoming more tight-fisted, the SBA is becoming the place more would-be franchisees are turning to.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Finance a Franchise] Reference