trim one's sails

And your father will trim my sails for me if he ever hears of this.

Nor does he seem to trim his sails according to the political winds.

"We find no evidence that he has trimmed his conservative sails," they concluded.

"As a matter of fact I've recently begun to trim my sails a bit," he adds.

"Our job," he said, "is to help the program trim its sails and be more successful."

"Hubert told me he learned to trim his sails when Johnson was there."

Investigators understand these implicit issues and trim their sails accordingly.

Increasingly the school is having to trim its sails and to top up its central resources.

You have to trim your sails to take advantage of how the wind is blowing.

But that means Conner might have to trim sails instead of steering the boat.