cut your coat according to your cloth
UKsaid to emphasize that someone should do as well as possible with the limited money they have
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Self-control and moderation
- be in command (of yourself) idiom
- collect
- command
- constraint
- continent
- decorous
- dignified
- dignity
- impervious
- lightly
- mind over matter idiom
- moderation
- moderation in all things idiom
- monastic
- monasticism
- restrict yourself to sth
- rise above sth
- self-controlled
- self-denial
- self-discipline
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