People of Shanghai are pennywise but pound-foolish.

上海人精明而不聪明。

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Let's not be penny-wise and pound-foolish in the new expansion of our production plant.

在我们制造车间新近的扩建工程中，我们可不能过份吝啬，因小失大。

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You're nothing more than penny wise and pound-foolish if you pass up an amazing new career opportunity to keep an extra little bit of income.

如果你为了保持额外多那么一点点的收入而错过了一个极好的工作机会，那么你就跟那些“捡了芝麻，丢了西瓜”的人没有多大区别。

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Nonetheless, in a penny-wise, pound-foolish manner, we have been prematurely reverting facilities and resources years before the treaty requires.

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Obey with a well-established reputation for penny-wise and pound-foolish approaches to foreign aid in general and a lack of appreciation of Turkey in particular insisted on cutting the overall amount of U.S. assistance to Ankara in Fiscal Year 1993 and on converting it from a grant aid to loans.

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