trim one 's sails
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is zh ā NF ē ngsh ǐ f ā n, which means to act according to circumstances. It comes from the marriage story of awakening the world.
Idiom size
"Xingshi marriage biography" Chapter 8: "to see people's eyebrows, seize the wind and sail."
Analysis of Idioms
[synonym]: improvise and [antonym]: go your own way
Idiom usage
To act as a predicate or an object
Chinese PinYin : zhān fēng shǐ fān
trim one 's sails
sounds that seem to be winding around the beams. rǎo liáng zhī yīn
A slow sparrow should make an early start.. bèn niǎo xiān fēi