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  1. trim one's sails: Merriam-Webster
  2. trim one's sails: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. trim one's sails, trim ones sails: Dictionary.com
  4. trim one's sails: Wiktionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (trim one's sails)

verb:  (nautical) To adjust a ship's sails to make the best of wind conditions.
verb:  (figurative, by extension) To adapt to changing circumstances, especially if it involves scaling back one's ambitions; to make cutbacks.


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