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  What it means

  “A miser loses twice.” Being stingy backfires — the money saved is eventually lost in greater measure, or the miser suffers in other ways for their penny-pinching.

  English equivalent

  Penny wise, pound foolish.

  Vocabulary

  • skąpy — miser, stingy person
  • tracić — to lose
  • dwa razy — twice

  Grammar note

  'Skąpy' here is used as a noun (the miser). 'Traci' is the third-person singular present of 'tracić'.

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