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are cheap or miserly or obsessed with money and accumulation.
The English viewed the Scots as hopeless cheapskates, while the Irish were written off as drunks and spendthrifts. The Dutch have a long reputation for being
tight with cash. Ben Franklin himself popularized the rhyme, "The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch is to save all the money they can touch.”
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