| 单词 | trim one's sails |
| 释义 | trim one's sailsModify one's stand, adapt to circumstances, as in His advisers told him to trim his sails before he alienated voters and bungled the election completely. This metaphoric expression alludes to adjusting a ship's sails to take full advantage of prevailing winds. [Late 1700s] Words nearby trim one's sailstrimmer, trimmer arch, trimming, trimodal, trimolecular, trim one's sails, trimonthly, trimorph, trimorphism, trimotor, trim rail The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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