Caroline Tran
2021-02-24 12:02
Draw your horns in informal
To behave or act more carefully, espically by spending less money. "Draw" can be replaced by "pull" without changing the meaning.
She started to draw in her horns for a new phone.
Customers are pulling in their horns in this pandemic.
I just received these monthly bills and we definitely need to pull our horns in and reduce unnecessary things.
Become less adored or ambitious
Due to the pandemic, many investors have drawn in their horns in real estate.
Many companies were drawing in their horns in the development of major projects.
1. Be cautious when walking or stepping.
2. To act with care and caution in order to avoid making a mistake or offending someone.
To be cautious in what one says.
We can change the possessive adjective from your into my, her, his, their, our or one's.
Draw/ pull in one's horns is first used as a figurative phrase. The retractable tentacles on which a snail's eyes are located are known as horns, and these are pulled/ drawed in whenever the mollusc is threatened.
Do you see anything wrong?
to do something very badly, impropperly.
He make a pig's ear of miscalculating in Math so he got zero for this section.
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