accord (redirected from according)

cut your coat according to your cloth

to only buy what you have enough money to pay for. Of course we'd love a huge expensive house, but you have to cut your coat according to your cloth.

See also: cloth, coat, cut

of your own accord

if you do something of your own accord, you do it without being asked to do it. She left of her own accord. I didn't tell her to go.

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of someone's/something's own accord

without being asked or forced to. My mother thought something was wrong when I cleaned up my room of my own accord. My legs seemed to move of their own accord.