trim one's sails (English, verb)
expansion: trim one's sails (third-person singular simple present trims one's sails, present participle trimming one's sails, simple past and past participle trimmed one's sails)
Senses:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To adjust a ship's sails to make the best of wind conditions.
glosses: To adapt to changing circumstances, especially if it involves scaling back one's ambitions; to make cutbacks.
tags: broadly
figuratively
Forms:
form: trims one's sails
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trimming one's sails
tags: participle
present
form: trimmed one's sails
tags: participle
past
form: trimmed one's sails
tags: past
form: trim one's sails to the wind
tags: alternative