Sentence examples for scrooge from inspiring English sources

Someone who chooses to forgo a Christmas dinner with family and friends (as Scrooge does) is better off than someone who does not have any invitations to turn down, even though both people seem to end up in the same position.

The Archangel Gabriel bears the same relationship to God as Bob Cratchit does to Scrooge, she argues.

Or maybe Steve Schwarzman, a private-equity boss who was portrayed as a modern Scrooge in the press after he made several billion dollars in 2007 from the initial public offering of his firm, Blackstone.

Even if "Do-Re-Mi" isn't your kind of Christmas tune, just be the family Scrooge and watch in case of any embarrassing mishaps to laugh at.

In fact, I managed to bag most of these games for under £1, which is a deal that could only really be beaten if I'd been a scrooge on the pay-what-you-want for charity Humble Bundle.

Later, when the spirit shows Scrooge the symbolic pair of feral children, "yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish", it treats the boy Ignorance as more dreadful than the girl Want.

If stand-up brings out your inner Scrooge, there are plenty of festive variations on the format.

But allow for inflation and add in two years of tight spending this year and last and the real spending growth over the whole of this parliament is less spectacular than ministers are making out, especially given the rhetoric about their supposedly Scrooge-like Tory predecessors (see chart).In this section Patriot games Rrrrrrrecession?

Your correspondent tried to expense such a trip, for research purposes, but her Scrooge-like editor said no.Ginger Reeder, who handpicks all the "fantasy items" for the catalogue, does not expect to sell everything.

The ad poked lightish fun at some secular aspects of the winter-holiday celebration (like shoppers squabbling over an item they both wanted) and showed carol singers trying to soften the heart of a Scrooge-like figure with what they self-mockingly called "stupid songs".

Rivals such as Best Buy and Gregg Appliances (which does business as h.h. gregg) also saw declines in sales thanks to Scrooge-like consumer spending, severe weather, weak mobile phone sales and price-cutting.