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Brewer's: Cheeseparing Economy
A useless economy. The French say, “Une économie de bouts de chandelles.” The allusion is to the well-known tale of a man who chose one of three sisters for wife by the way they pared their cheese. (See above.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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