cheese-paring

kůra od sýra; maličkost, nicotnost; skrblictví

Any cheese-paring of the logistic stocks reduces battle efficiency, and failure to look after barracks, married quarters, and installations in the short term piles up trouble and expensive rebuilding for the future. BNC

It was not until ten years later that we began to see that in fact these very English store-cupboard provisions, so far from being suited to the cheese-paring methods necessitated by desperate shortages, demand first-class basic ingredients and a liberal hand with butter. BNC

This is cheese-paring, I know, but it might help. BNC

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