grippe-sou

Une grippe-sou tu veux dire ?
You mean a miser, don't you?
C'est un grippe-sou.
He is a miser.
Bien, mais pas de grippe-sou.
Fine, but no scrooging.
Pourtant, le héros de ce conte, qui était un véritable grippe-sou, a été métamorphosé.
Yet the hero of this tale, who was a real miser, underwent a transformation.
J’espère qu’il en adviendra de même de cet autre grippe-sou qu’est le Premier ministre Tony Blair.
I hope that the same happens to that other miser, namely Prime Minister Blair.
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