Meaning of cut your coat according to your cloth in English:
cut your coat according to your cloth
phrase
proverbUndertake only what you have the money or ability to do and no more.
‘‘We cut our coat according to our cloth,’ she says.’- ‘We have to cut our coat according to our cloth, we have to do the best we can with what we have got.’
- ‘I had, due to the expense involved, to cut my coat according to my cloth and use from time to time what parts I could.’
- ‘We need to cut our coat according to our cloth, not sell our souls to be at the mercy of organizations, for a few days of materialistic transient comforts.’
- ‘I'd love to spend a lot on good clothing but then I have to cut my coat according to my cloth.’
- ‘In terms of the other two options, we have to cut our coat according to our cloth.’
- ‘We had better hold a cabinet council and decide how much we can afford to spend in housekeeping and other departments, and cut our coat according to our cloth.’
- ‘But we have to cut our coat according to our cloth.’
- ‘Which is no bad thing provided we draw the appropriate conclusions, the foremost being that we must cut our coat according to our cloth.’
- ‘Nigeria will never make any economic progress if we do not discipline ourselves so as to always cut our coat according to our cloth.’
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