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squeezes a quarter till the eagle screams
SKWEEZ-iz a KWOR-ter til the EE-gul SKREEMZ · phrase · informal
Very stingy; a tightwad.
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Describes someone extremely tight with money.
“He squeezes a quarter so hard the eagle screams.”
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squeezes a quarter till the eagle screams In A Sentence
He squeezes a quarter so hard the eagle screams.
Origin & Usage
Southern idiom; the eagle on US coinage "screams" from being gripped so tightly by a miser.
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What does "squeezes a quarter till the eagle screams" mean?
It describes someone extremely stingy—so tight with money they grip a coin hard enough to make the eagle on it "scream."
Why an eagle?
The eagle appears on US coinage; the image is of a miser clutching the coin so hard the bird cries out.
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