falling bits (verb) come unglued: lose one's cool
Sinonime: acquisitive, avaricious, chary, cheap, chintzy, churlish, close, close-fisted, costive, covetous, curmudgeonly, economical, extortionate, frugal, grasping, greedy, grudging, hard-fisted, ignoble, illiberal, ironfisted, mean, miserly, narrow, near, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, pennywise, penurious,
petty, pinchpenny,
rapacious,
saving, scrimping, scurvy,
selfish, skimping,
sordid, sparing,
thrifty, tight*, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous, ungiving