penny wise and pound foolish

基本解释

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。
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。
Asking the workers not to make private phone calls from the office is not likely to reduce the firm's losses, it is just being penny wise and pound-foolish.
要工作人员不在办公室打私人电话不大可能减少企业的亏损，那只是打小段盘而忽略大处。

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.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy Wake-Up Call From Saddam: Turkey Is A Friend In Need, A Friend Indeed
The Center for Security Policy is profoundly concerned that, if the Clinton Administration has its way, the United States will make penny-wise and pound-foolish reductions in its defense establishment — reductions which are both inconsistent with its abiding global requirements and very costly to reconstruct when, inevitably, it is recognized that such a step is necessary.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy