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How to pronounce “trim one's sails”
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- (nautical) To adjust a ship's sails to make the best of wind conditions.
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Meaning
- [Verb]
- (nautical) To adjust a ship's sails to make the best of wind conditions.
- (figurative, by extension) To adapt to changing circumstances, especially if it involves scaling back one's ambitions; to make cutbacks.
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