Are you going to harp on about the lights again? It might cost five cents if I left
it on for an hour.
* harp on about: to nag someone
continuously about something
ex> My English teacher used to harp
on about conjugating verbs.
And if you leave all the lights on all
the time, those nickels add up. Come on, honey, it doesn't take a lot of effort
to flip a switch. Waste not, want not!
* waste not, want not: proverb suggesting
frugality at all times
ex> Waste not, want not was an
important rule of life growing up with eight brothers and sisters.
I totally agree with you, but why can’t
you just turn out the lights that I leave on without bringing it up?
* bring up: to raise a subject in a
conversation
ex> My best friend always liked to bring
up embarrassing topics when we were around pretty girls.
I guess I’ll learn the hard way when I can’t afford to pay the electricity bill
anymore and we have to wear sweaters in our dark house.
* the hard way: an unnecessarily
difficult way of doing or learning something
ex> Why do you always do things the
hard way?
Not everybody is a penny pincher like you. Anyway, how would you know how much they
pay for their electricity?
* penny pincher: an extremely thrifty
person; a cheap person
ex> My grandmother grew up during the
war, so she learned to be a penny pincher at an early age.
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