"close with a buck" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "closer with a buck",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "closest with a buck",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "closer with a buck",
        "sup": "closest with a buck"
      },
      "expansion": "close with a buck (comparative closer with a buck, superlative closest with a buck)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1985, April 1, \"Omaha's Plain Dealer,\" Newsweek (republished from Newsweek Archives, August 17, 2017) (retrieved 22 Nov 2020)",
          "text": "And even with a personal fortune worth upward of $700 million, Buffett is still close with a buck; once urged by other members of his golfing foursome to double their bet of $1 a hole, he prudently replied: \"Based on the way we're playing today, it wouldn't be a good bet.\""
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 June 2, Lennie Bennett, “Warhol prints from Cochran Collection pop at Leepa-Rattner Museum”, in Tampa Bay Times, retrieved 2020-11-22",
          "text": "Warhol […] was famously close with a buck, but prints he made as part of fundraisers for the 1983 Olympics and in advance of the 2000 millennium indicate he had some heart for causes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 November 16, Rosie DiManno, “Mats Sundin thankful for those Swedes that paved the way”, in The Star, retrieved 2020-11-22",
          "text": "Most of his time was spent building a new house on the Stockholm outskirts, serving as an ambassador for last year’s world championships in Sweden and — always close with a buck — dabbling in cautious financial investments.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Prudent in the expenditure of money; frugal; parsimonious."
      ],
      "id": "en-close_with_a_buck-en-adj-7ivPU81m",
      "links": [
        [
          "Prudent",
          "prudent"
        ],
        [
          "expenditure",
          "expenditure"
        ],
        [
          "frugal",
          "frugal"
        ],
        [
          "parsimonious",
          "parsimonious"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Prudent in the expenditure of money; frugal; parsimonious."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "frugal"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "close with a buck"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "closer with a buck",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "closest with a buck",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "closer with a buck",
        "sup": "closest with a buck"
      },
      "expansion": "close with a buck (comparative closer with a buck, superlative closest with a buck)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1985, April 1, \"Omaha's Plain Dealer,\" Newsweek (republished from Newsweek Archives, August 17, 2017) (retrieved 22 Nov 2020)",
          "text": "And even with a personal fortune worth upward of $700 million, Buffett is still close with a buck; once urged by other members of his golfing foursome to double their bet of $1 a hole, he prudently replied: \"Based on the way we're playing today, it wouldn't be a good bet.\""
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 June 2, Lennie Bennett, “Warhol prints from Cochran Collection pop at Leepa-Rattner Museum”, in Tampa Bay Times, retrieved 2020-11-22",
          "text": "Warhol […] was famously close with a buck, but prints he made as part of fundraisers for the 1983 Olympics and in advance of the 2000 millennium indicate he had some heart for causes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 November 16, Rosie DiManno, “Mats Sundin thankful for those Swedes that paved the way”, in The Star, retrieved 2020-11-22",
          "text": "Most of his time was spent building a new house on the Stockholm outskirts, serving as an ambassador for last year’s world championships in Sweden and — always close with a buck — dabbling in cautious financial investments.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Prudent in the expenditure of money; frugal; parsimonious."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Prudent",
          "prudent"
        ],
        [
          "expenditure",
          "expenditure"
        ],
        [
          "frugal",
          "frugal"
        ],
        [
          "parsimonious",
          "parsimonious"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Prudent in the expenditure of money; frugal; parsimonious."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "frugal"
    }
  ],
  "word": "close with a buck"
}