trim one's sails to the wind

trim one's sails to the wind

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is Su í f ē NGD ǎ ODU ò, which means to steer by the wind; it means to change attitude along with the development of the situation. From drunk song.

The origin of Idioms

In Song Dynasty, Lu You's drunk song: "Xiangfeng is the best sailer, so it's more worrying to go down with the wind."

Analysis of Idioms

Turn the rudder with the wind

Idiom usage

Act according to circumstances.

Examples

The second discount of the peach blossom girl by Wang Ye in Yuan Dynasty: "then you matchmaker one by one, sipping the population like a honey bowl, all just follow the wind, it's too little to ask for more money."