cut one's coat according to one's cloth

English

Alternative forms

• cut the coat according to the cloth

Pronunciation

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

See also

• cut one's cloth to suit one's purse
• cut from the same cloth