(US) To expend more money or effort in gaining something (especially, a cost reduction or revenue addition) than it is worth.
(US) To expend more money or effort in gaining something (especially, a cost reduction or revenue addition) than it is worth.
“I believe we’re being asked to chase pennies with dollars, and it will cost the taxpayers.”
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(North America) To spend one's money carefully and sparingly, so that it lasts; to be thrifty.
(British) A chew costing (or formerly costing) one penny.
(idiomatic) To chase after the promise of a continually fulfilling high from an addictive substance.
(North America, colloquial, humorous) To be very stingy; to be reluctant to part with money.
(idiomatic, slang, somewhat, _, vulgar) To be on the hunt for a (usually sexual) partner.