trim one's sails

trim one's sails

Turn the rudder with the wind, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh ù NF ē ngzhu ǎ nduॸ, meaning to change the rudder position with the wind direction, meaning to change the attitude along the situation. From the peach blossom girl by Wu Mingshi in Yuan Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

The second discount of yuan · anonymous's peach blossom girl: "then you matchmaker one by one, sipping the population like a honey bowl, all just follow the wind and ask for the money to earn less and fight for more."

Idiom usage

Take advantage of the opportunity to act.

Discrimination of words

[pinyin code]: sfzd

To act according to the wind, to act according to the circumstances, to act according to the wind

As a result, nationalist writers have to cry and shout about the incident instead. (Lu Xun's qijieting essays: Ghosts in Chinese literary world)