throw nickels around like manhole covers (English, verb)
expansion: throw nickels around like manhole covers (third-person singular simple present throws nickels around like manhole covers, present participle throwing nickels around like manhole covers, simple past threw nickels around like manhole covers, past participle thrown nickels around like manhole covers)
Senses:
glosses: To be very stingy; to be reluctant to part with money.
tags: Canada
US
colloquial
humorous
Forms:
form: throws nickels around like manhole covers
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: throwing nickels around like manhole covers
tags: participle
present
form: threw nickels around like manhole covers
tags: past
form: thrown nickels around like manhole covers
tags: participle
past