In Spanish, a cheapskate might be described as having a cocodrilo en el bolsillo, or a “crocodile in the pocket,” meaning they consider reaching for their wallet too perilous. In English, a stingy person may be said to have taffy pockets, meaning they reach into their pocket, but somehow the hand never comes back out with money because the hand must be stuck there by gooey taffy. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of ““Taffy Pockets” Imagines a Cheapskate’s Hand Trapped in Goo as an Excuse for Why They Can’t Pull Out Money”
We were talking a few weeks ago about expressions around the world for somebody who’s a cheapskate, very miserly.
And we talked about, for example, the Spanish phrase cocodrilo en el bolsillo, which means a crocodile in the pocket.
But we heard from Stephen Hilty, who shared a term that he had heard that I really like for this, and that’s taffy pockets.
Oh, yes, I saw that.
I laughed.
I saw that email and I laughed.
Because you can just imagine somebody like, I can’t get my hand out of my pocket.
It’s stuck in my can’t.
My money is like taffy.
Right.
