fit with

fit with (something)

1. To correspond to or compliment something well. I'm sorry, but that paint color just doesn't fit with the calming aesthetic I want for the yoga studio.
2. To equip someone or something with the right items, clothing, tools, etc., to do something. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "fit" and "with." The coach fitted me with a different type of tennis racket that would better suit my playstyle. Let's fit the machine with a camera so we can have a record of everything that happens.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

fit with something

to harmonize with something; to go well with something. Do you think that your behavior fits with the occasion? This coat doesn't fit with these slacks.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • fit with (something)
  • jibe
  • jibe with
  • jibe with (something)
  • square with
  • square with someone
  • tally with
  • tally with (something)
  • return the compliment
  • pay compliment
References in periodicals archive
Thus, employees with high, compared to low, self-efficacy are more likely to feel a better fit with their organization.
A sample item is "My organization's values and culture provide a good fit with the things that I value in life." Cronbach's alpha reliability of the scale was .95 in this study.
The five-seat, 2015 Fit with 130-horsepower four cylinder comes with 95.7 cubic feet of space for passengers.
The lowest starting retail price for a 2015 Fit with a CVT that a driver operates like an automatic is $17,115.
New methods for fitting a target market that can improve fit by at least 50% over a product's current fit with the same number of sizes; and
Statistics indicate that a small percentage of warfighters cannot achieve a proper fit with a standard-issue mask.
For those who are hard to fit with the M40 series protective mask and the M50 series JSGPM, the M45 CB protective mask can offer a possible solution.
This correlational study examined the relationship between career satisfaction and person--organization, demands--abilities, and needs--supplies fit with counselors (N = 464) using the Perceived Job Fit instrument (Cable & DeRuc, 2002) and a scale of career satisfaction adapted from the Adult Career Concerns Inventory (Super, Thompson, Lindeman, Myers, & Jordaan, 1988).
Afterwards, their second study sought to validate their emerging definition of fit with further sessions with 38 people in six organizations in different sectors and geographical locations.
First and foremost, the COO has to be a fit with the CEO.
Although insufficient for the workplace, this mask offered substantial protection from the challenge aerosol and showed good fit with minimal leakage.
Melancon, Thompson, and Becnel (1994) isolated eight factors rather than nine, and they were unable to find a perfect fit with the model proposed by Fennema and Sherman.
Not exactly cheap and a bad fit with broad shoulders and very wide arms.
The present investigation explores how individuals obtained both direct and indirect feedback to determine their fit with their organization.
The purpose of this article is to develop a theory that addresses how fit with single aspects of the work environment combine and interact to affect a variety of individual-level outcomes.