How To Use scrooge In A Sentence
- Allthough it could be just prudent housekeeping ahead of the expected cuts and the hootsmon is spinning it as a "rammy with westminster" article, we all know Westminster are going to be scrooge and cant afford it after Browns disaster. The SNP Myth of the £500m cut and related matters
- Scrooge has been immortalised in the English language as the epitome of miserliness and meanness of spirit.
- I tell him he looks like a fabulous Scrooge. Times, Sunday Times
- No, he takes Scrooge to the market, and shows him the abundance there, especially the fruits sometimes literal of foreign trade: There were great, round, pot-bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped like the waistcoats of jolly old gentlemen, lolling at the doors, and tumbling out into the street in their apoplectic opulence. A Dickens Of A Debate Between Mr. Scrooge And Mr. Say
- What a bunch of Scrooges.
- The offices are so old-fashioned that one was used as Scrooge's office in a recent film version of A Christmas Carol.
- Are they silently acquiescing to the policies of a government that is as mean as Scrooge?
- But this is not the case with mean old Ebenezer Scrooge, whose first name chimes with "squeezer" as well as with "geezer," whose last name is a combination of "screw" and "gouge," and whose author disapproves mightily of his ways: Debtor's Prism
- Once he sees the way that his greedy, loveless life will end if he continues in his ways, Scrooge promises to be a more charitable, generous person to prevent such an end.
- Coincidentally, most of the scenes used in Carol's marketing are from this last group, like when Scrooge zooms across England with the Ghost of Christmas Past, rockets into the sky on a giant candle snuffer, or snowboards on an icicle. Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol (3D) -- Don't Get Scrooged
