trim sails



trim your sails

to spend less money The school is having to trim its sails because of government cutbacks.
See also: sail, trim

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Trygve-Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Yanna-Greek
Christiana[.kristi'ænə]
LieselLEE-zelGerman
Mihajlo-Serbian, Croatian
WillemVIL-ləm, WIL-ləmDutch