skin a flint

Verb

 * 1)  Go to great lengths to save or gain something, particularly money.
 * Deed, it wasn't Jane, for she just hates ye; she always says ye're an ould miser, an' ye'd skin a flint.
 * The old women used to say that he would have skinned a flint to have saved a halfpenny, if he had spoilt a sixpenny knife in doing it.
 * The old women used to say that he would have skinned a flint to have saved a halfpenny, if he had spoilt a sixpenny knife in doing it.
 * The old women used to say that he would have skinned a flint to have saved a halfpenny, if he had spoilt a sixpenny knife in doing it.
 * The old women used to say that he would have skinned a flint to have saved a halfpenny, if he had spoilt a sixpenny knife in doing it.