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GoldLight Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

Cheap out / skimp / scant

Could "skimp" or "scant" be substitute for "cheap out"?
For example in this excerpt:
"Don't cheap out. Buy compressed air. Don't think you can use your mouth to blow the dust out."
  

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"Don't be cheap out . Buy compressed air. Don't think you can use your mouth to blow the dust out.

— AlpheccaStars

  • "Don't be cheap out .
  • Buy compressed air.
  • Don't think you can use your mouth to blow the dust out.
  • "Don't skimp.
  • Buy compressed air.
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"Don't be cheap out. Buy compressed air. Don't think you can use your mouth to blow the dust out.
"Don't skimp.. Buy compressed air. Don't think you can use your mouth to blow the dust out."

Scant does not fit.
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Thank you.
Does it mean that the author of the text wrote the expression "don't cheap out" wrongly and ungrammatical?
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GoldLight wrote the expression "don't cheap out"
I have never come across this expression.
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AlpheccaStarsGoldLight wrote the expression "don't cheap out"I have never come across this expression.
Thank you. It is a part of a text written on a forum "fan cleaning". I am not able to recognise whether it was written by a native or non-native English speaker.
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AlpheccaStars GoldLight wrote the expression "don't cheap out"I have never come across this expression.
I have. It's casual slang, like "wuss out" or "freak out". Don't chicken out on me. Don't cheap out on me.
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I have heard "Don't freak me out" and "Don't chicken out." I suppose similar expressions could be invented. But I wouldn't call them standard English.
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Enoon, AlpheccaStars, thank you for this information where should this expression be clasified.
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