"pound-foolish" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From penny-wise and pound-foolish (“thrifty in the small and wasteful in the large”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more pound-foolish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "most pound-foolish",
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        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1976, MI Roemer with CE Hopkins, “Response to MK Chen”, in Medical Care:",
          "text": "Accordingly, by Dr. Chen's method of calculation, the copayment experience would have to be deemed even more pound-foolish than we found it to be.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Being unwise in dealing with large amounts of money."
      ],
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "gv",
          "lang": "Manx",
          "sense": "being unwise in dealing with large amounts of money",
          "word": "punt ommidjagh"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pound-foolish"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From penny-wise and pound-foolish (“thrifty in the small and wasteful in the large”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more pound-foolish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most pound-foolish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Being unwise in dealing with large amounts of money."
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "being unwise in dealing with large amounts of money",
      "word": "punt ommidjagh"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pound-foolish"
}