penny wise and pound foolish

基本解釋

Let's not be penny-wise and pound-foolish in the new expansion of our production plant.
在我們制造車間新近的擴建工程中，我們可不能過份吝嗇，因小失大。
You're nothing more than penny wise and pound-foolish if you pass up an amazing new career opportunity to keep an extra little bit of income.
如果你爲了保持額外多那麼一點點的收入而錯過了一個極好的工作機會，那麼你就跟那些“撿了芝麻，丟了西瓜”的人沒有多大區(qū)別。
Asking the workers not to make private phone calls from the office is not likely to reduce the firm's losses, it is just being penny wise and pound-foolish.
要工作人員不在辦公室打私人電話不大可能減少企業(yè)的虧損，那衹是打小段磐而忽略大処。

Obey — with a well-established reputation for penny-wise and pound-foolish approaches to foreign aid in general and a lack of appreciation of Turkey in particular — insisted on cutting the overall amount of U.S. assistance to Ankara in Fiscal Year 1993 and on converting it from a grant aid to loans.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy Wake-Up Call From Saddam: Turkey Is A Friend In Need, A Friend Indeed
The Center for Security Policy is profoundly concerned that, if the Clinton Administration has its way, the United States will make penny-wise and pound-foolish reductions in its defense establishment — reductions which are both inconsistent with its abiding global requirements and very costly to reconstruct when, inevitably, it is recognized that such a step is necessary.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy