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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: accord, cloth, cut

the men in white coats (humorous)

doctors who look after people who are mentally ill. The men in white coats will be coming to take me away if I stay in this job much longer.

See also: men, white

on someone's coat-tails

if you achieve something on someone's coat-tails, you only achieve it because of their help or influence. She'd risen to fame on the coat-tails of her half-sister.