cut one's coat according to one's cloth

cut one's coat according to one's cloth

English

Alternative forms

• cut the coat according to the cloth

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Verb

cut one's coat according to one's cloth

1. (idiomatic) To live within one's means, without spending more than is affordable.

Translations

to live within one's means

Chinese: Cantonese: 量力而行 (loeng6 lik6 ji4 hang4) Mandarin: 量力而行 (zh) (liànglì'érxíng) Finnish: elää suu säkkiä myöten Georgian: ჭამა ქონებაზე ჰკიდიაო (č̣ama konebaze hḳidiao)

Icelandic: sníða sér stakk eftir vexti Italian: fare il passo secondo la gamba Kazakh: көрпеңе қарай көсіл (körpeñe qaray kösil) Latin: pes sic tendatur ne lodix protereatur Malay: ukur baju di badan sendiri Russian: по одёжке протя́гивай но́жки (po odjóžke protjágivaj nóžki)