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idiomsailstrim your sails (to sth)to change your behaviour, especially to spend less money, in order to deal with a difficult situation ◆ often used in business and politics:As the country is starting economic reforms, it's also trimming its sails.To get themselves elected, Labour either had to trim its sails to the new economic situation, or keep its promises.
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See:- crowd (on) sail
- crowd sail
- hoist your sail when the wind is fair
- knock the wind out of sails
- make sail
- reef a sail in
- reef in the sail(s)
- reef the sail(s)
- sail against
- sail against the wind
- sail along
- sail around
- sail before the wind
- sail close to (near) the wind, to
- sail close to the wind
- sail for (some place)
- sail for some place
- sail from (some place) to (some place else)
- sail from some place to some place else
- sail in
- sail into
- sail into (one)
- sail into someone
- sail near the wind
- sail right through something
- sail through
- sail through (something)
- sail through something
- sail under false colors
- sail under false colors, to
- sail under false colours
- sail up a river
- sail up the/a/(some) river
- set sail
- set sail for (some place)
- set sail for some place
- strike sail
- take the wind out of (one's) sails
- take the wind out of one's sails
- take the wind out of sails
- take the wind out of somebody's sails
- take the wind out of someone’s sails
- take the wind out of someone's sails
- take the wind out of someone's sails, to
- trim (one's) sails
- trim one's sails
- trim one's sails, to
- trim your sails
- under sail
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