bean counter

I was finding him to be a bean counter at best.

The bean counters have taken over, and guys like us, we're history!

His wife had a creative mind, but he was a bean counter.

"Never mind the cost of what it does to our social environment, we need more money", say the bean counters!

This time, some of the bean counters are not going quietly.

To the bean counters, the bottom line is always more important than the farm system.

I had better get down to the old bean counters."

"My guy was just the bean counter," I tell him.

Only if that further study is intended to turn out another academic bean counter.

Only a bean counter would look to see whether it's entirely in sync.

He'd have to kill enough of the people serving under this bean counter to force a surrender.

And a bean counter as well, tallying up profits before they were made.

Those are important, but she was not elected so overwhelmingly to assume the office of chief bean counter.

"The sick, twisted little bean counter who came up with the health maintenance organization."

"But all too often, business schools train employees who are sophisticated bean counters.

This time, with real bean counters to take care of the details, maybe he could get even more time in space.

We'll be in thrall to the bean counters then.

"The bean counters didn't care how much users liked it."

I thought we could crack this thing wide open if we got to the bean counters.

Heaven forbid a bean counter takes over a business.

It was the bean counters in the States.

When the bean counters come in and the budgets go down, shouldn't the movies suffer?

"A bean counter doesn't usually have that much power."

Corporate bean counters noticed the hemorrhaging bottom line and passed up the word.

There really is no reason for us to not use both/multiple sources but bean counters don't like having to count past 1.