Oxford bilingüe

Hola Cristina,

En tu texto el dicho en inglés es la inversión del dicho "Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish", que significa ahorrar en nimiedades y luego gastar excesivamente ("ciudar el centavo, y no los billetes grandes").

Se me ocurre que podrías decir "no ciudar el centavo, sino los billetes grandes".

Suerte

Elena

Dicho habitual:

GoEnglish.com Idiom = **"Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish"** = Today's ...
... Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish" (cautious with small amounts of money, ... that if we took a vacation now it would be **penny-wise, pound-foolish**

www.goenglish.com/PennyWisePoundFoolish.asp


Dicho invertido, como en tu texto:

While its hard to assess, our CFO estimated our **"Penny Foolish - Pound Wise"** approach saved us close to a million dollars in
legal fees in one year alone.

http://www.tmronline.com/A55951/tmrarticles.nsf/0/297006c322...

Como te podrás dar cuenta el dicho se está utilizando en sentido opuesto al que generalmente se usa.
Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish ( cautious with small amounts of money, but careless with larger amounts ... )
A penny is a small amount of money and a pound is a larger amount. "Penny-wise, pound-foolish" is to be cautious (wise) with small amounts of money but wasteful (foolish) with larger amounts. Example: "We've worked so hard to save money that if we took a vacation now it would be penny-wise, pound-foolish." People sometimes worry about spending small amounts of money; then they carelessly spend much larger amounts. Example: "He spends very little on food during the week, then blows all his money drinking on the weekends. He really is penny-wise, pound-foolish."

de mi propia inspiración, espero te ayude

... o gastar en partidas importantes sin preocuparse del coste si con ello mejora la producción o el servicio prestado.