cheap out
verb1
Informal To reduce costs on a project or product to an unreasonable degree; to cut corners.
- That's not the kind of product you want to cheap out on.
2
Informal To act cheap; to unreasonably refuse to spend money.
- I could never marry someone who cheaps out like that.
3
Informal To be too stingy to achieve a purpose or provide a promised product/service/project.
- I was cheaped out of having a good vacation because the hotel's marketing misled me.