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"ref": "2001, Sheila Fletcher, Victorian Girls: Lord Lyttelton's Daughters",
"text": "None of which he grudged, for he felt, like his father the third Baron, that one should never cheesepare on boys' education.",
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"To pinch pennies; to be stingy or miserly."
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"(intransitive) To pinch pennies; to be stingy or miserly."
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