cut (one's) coat to suit (one's) cloth
cut (one's) coat to suit (one's) cloth
To shop or act in accordance with one's financial limitations. You'll go bankrupt unless you start cutting your coat to suit your cloth.
See also: cloth, coat, cut, suit
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- cut (one's) coat according to (one's) cloth
- cut coat according to cloth
- cut your coat according to your cloth
- cut your cloth
- cut (one's) cloth
- take the cloth
- in cloth
- on tenterhooks, to be
- man of the cloth
- spit up