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cut coat according to cloth

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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, coat, cut

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cut above
cut across
cut an interesting/ridiculous/unusual figure
cut and run
cut and thrust of
cut both ways
cut both/two ways

cut coat according to cloth
cut corners
cut dead
cut down to size
cut from the same cloth
cut in
cut it out
cut it/things fine

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