Expense-conscious Critiquer Gifts

'At $12 a glass, I want it to spit out what it drank.'

No, I didn't know they were going to cut the office furniture budget in half.

"These are the principal qualities we're looking for in our new recruits."

"Defense budget... Do you have any idea how much catnip $700 billion would buy?"

'So far, all I can tell you for sure is how much I've charged you.'

'Take a letter,'

'Before we unload him, he'd like a written price support.'

How to do without

'I know the marketing budget is stretched...but I still think we need professional models!'

"This is a third-year medical student. To cut costs, your insurance company dismissed the surgeon."

"... And how are you enjoying the cheapest bottle of wine on the menu?"

"You've got two more things to worry about now. You're mad and I'm expensive."

"Our generous pensions are unsustainable so I'm firing you."

Med. Soc Sec. Can we agree on anything to reduce the deficit other than a bake sale?

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"That fly paper's paid for itself."

'Haven't they ever heard of walls around here?'

'What wine goes with an enormous expense account?'

"If only there was a thesaurus for numbers."

"We’ve been told to cut the drugs budget so in future Louella here will be chanting away your pain."

"And, in our continuing effort to minimize surgical costs, I'll be hitting you over the head and tearing you open with my bare hands."

'I know you're trying to keep health care costs down - but what kind of life support systems are these?'

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Cost of the military.

"The good news is we're going paperless. The bad news is it's the employee's bathrooms."

"Natasha cuts diagnosis costs."

'Now I'll show you what turns a $6,000 operation into a $17,000 operation.'

"It was all we could afford in the end."

'This Investment Portfolio is an extravagant waste of money! Oh hold on... that's my expense account!'

'The armed forces are having to respond to new kinds of threat.'

"Get used to it...I think we're going to be eating them for a while yet..."

"I'm afraid we're going to have to let you go. . . we need to make savings to pay for the locums!"