Don't be penny wise and pound foolish.

不要小钱精明，大钱愚蠢。

She is always penny wise and pound foolish.

她老是小事聪明，大事糊涂（小处精明，大处浪费）。

Some might say he is penny wise and pound foolish.

有些人可能会说他是因小失大。

I know, but don't be penny wise and pound foolish. They won't last long.

我知道，但是不要因小失大。那种鞋穿不久的。

Forbidding private phone calls in the office cannot really reduce the company's expenses; it's just being penny wise and pound foolish.

禁止在办公室打私人电话其实不能减少多少开支；反而是因小失大。

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。

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。

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。

You can't afford accumulated a variety of extra burden penny-wise and pound foolish.

你付不起贪小失大所累积的种种额外负担。

He is penny-wise and pound-foolish to drive for two hours to buy 1 kilo potatos which are 3 fen a kilo cheaper than those in the market nearby.

他开了两小时车就为了买二斤土豆，每公斤比附近的市场便宜三分钱。