Brewer's: Spigot

Spare at the spigot and spill at the bung. To be parsimonious in trifles and wasteful in great matters, like a man who stops his beer-tub at the vent-hole and leaves it running at the bung-hole.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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