The housewife of Jaffna, being thrifty, makes minimum use of ingredients to turn out simple, wholesome fare. |
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Maggie Thatcher wasn't a politician, but an ordinary thrifty housewife who had somehow become Prime Minister. |
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But in other areas, she would seem to be thrifty to the point of stinginess. |
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More expensive water will provide an incentive to be more thrifty in how it is used. |
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For the thrifty, there are smaller lanes branching off, where no goods carry price tags and bargaining is the name of the game. |
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People who save see others as wasteful while people who spend see others as thrifty. |
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We will be focussing on the forequarter, which lends itself to all kinds of delicious but thrifty recipes. |
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With mineral crystal lenses, hand-made titanium frames, and silicone nose and ear tips, these glasses aren't for the thrifty. |
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Billed by its advocates as the best-kept secret on the internet, search-engine marketing has become the medium of choice for thrifty marketeers. |
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There is no haggling, but why be thrifty over cured reindeer meat, heaps of cloudberries, lingonberries and baskets of wild mushrooms? |
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The thrifty Scot is well aware that some nifty wheeling and dealing has left him in a win-win situation. |
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Being thrifty with his money is not something the Bond star is renowned for. |
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The cash-strapped collegian or the thrifty housewife would certainly understand this logic. |
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She named an amount of money for this service which my thrifty husband felt was ridiculous. |
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She is very resourceful and thrifty, but her face is always expressionless, except for an occasional look of fear. |
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There are also discounts available for the thrifty to holders of American Express cards. |
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Dewar, who came to embody the thrifty character of the nation, had a vision which is encapsulated in those first six sonorous words. |
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The average Swiss government member, I repeat it, treats and manages the money of the tax payer as if it were his own, in a thrifty way. |
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They were so favourably located with reference to both the sea and rivers that our colonists built a thrifty trade overseas. |
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Knowing where to shop and what constitutes as essential to the game can help beginners get a thrifty start in the sport. |
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If we weren't thrifty and creative...we would have lost our home shortly after we purchased it. |
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The company I work for is what could euphemistically be called thrifty. |
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From advice to housewives on the importance of preserving kitchen waste to the announcement of an ice cream ban in 1942, the book gives a taste of the thrifty war years. |
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Would the relevant ancestors have been thrifty ants, squirrels and bees rather than the profligate grasshoppers and elephant seals appealed to here? |
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But the desire to be thrifty is hardly the only reason some golfers endeavor to play in frigid weather. |
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By supporting the bill, the House is acknowledging that reality and doing its part to encourage Canadians to be thrifty. |
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As a Liberal, I personally have the basic attitude that we should be thrifty when it comes to public expenditure. |
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He recalled the words of an Ahousaht elder, who advised him to be thrifty and not greedy. |
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Energy efficiency, energy-saving lamps and thrifty electrical appliances are places where the electrical trades can make a start. |
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Being a thrifty grad student, she ate a lot of it, because the expiration date on the bag was that day. |
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They had no luggage and, Mr. Smith who is a thrifty millionaire, was wearing an old mackinaw. |
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Walton was a passionate advocate of the retail trade, a workaholic and an extremely thrifty person. |
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The result also reveals that kids from more well-off families tend to spend their money lavishly while those whose parents are unemployed are more thrifty. |
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The Scout Law declares a Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent. |
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Living on imported food was not a thrifty way to spend money. |
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I was brought up in a very thrifty household, which is why 10 10 has been reasonably easy for us. |
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The thrifty burghers even voted down plans to bid for the winter Olympics. So is Keynesian stimulus banned? |
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We in the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs favour a thrifty budget too, but not in this way. |
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French and English authors agreed a respectable lady was modest, thrifty and charming. |
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Every weekend thousands of thrifty Yorkshire folk trek to windswept fields to rummage through boxes of junk in the hope of finding something special. |
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A bowl accompanied by a plate of three perogies, a scoop of mashed potatoes and a gob of the ubiquitous sour cream makes a filling, comforting and extremely thrifty supper. |
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If people tend to be thrifty and to save their money, there is no guarantee that the money saved will be invested to further the economic prosperity of the country. |
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He cites the thrifty values of his father, a Greek immigrant, as the inspiration for his advocacy for their national equivalent. |
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Known for being thrifty and risk-averse, Ilocanos were asked to invest in businesses rather than putting their money in the banks. |
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It's good to be thrifty, to repair things that break and to cycle to work. |
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Now, a pair of biomechanics theorists say that they've captured the essence of what makes human locomotion as thrifty as it is. |
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We doubt the thrifty royals will go that far though somehow. |
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He said he plans to be thrifty with his money, and save most of it. |
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So, madam, just as soon as you stop swithering, open your thrifty and buy my place, then we shall sugar off and leave you in peace. |
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In fact, Velveeta got its start as a thrifty cheese alternative used during rationing. |
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Just as in the rat brain study, what we see is a more healthy child, a more thrifty child, and we never see a mother who undergoes any postpartum depression. |
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Because of this new reality, the organizations are required collectively to be more cost-conscious and thrifty than ever before in the deployment of the resources at their command. |
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Shifty and thrifty as old Greek or modern Scot, there were few things he could not invent, and perhaps nothing he could not endure. |
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The examples of Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland, mentioned by the Commission, offer glaring proof that, under favourable economic conditions, the results of thrifty and spendthrift fiscal policies are totally different. |
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This thrifty performer, which averages 8.5 litres per 100 kilometres according to the automaker, has won over many consumers since the beginning of the year. |
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Drifty gene John Speakman, A counter to the thrifty gene theory. |
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