"trim down to size" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "trims down to size",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "trimming down to size",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "trimmed down to size",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "trimmed down to size",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "trim down to size (third-person singular simple present trims down to size, present participle trimming down to size, simple past and past participle trimmed down to size)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "word": "cut down to size"
        }
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1962, W. Cleon Skousen, So You Want to Raise a Boy?, page 106",
          "text": "If parents try to trim a 7-year-old egoist down to size with sarcastic quips or disparaging comments, they only add to his sense of inferiority and thereby agitate his continued construction of a defensive front.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Louis L'Amour, To Tame a Land, page 102",
          "text": "I seen him trim Ollie Burdette down to size and run him out of town.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Daniel W. Patterson, The True Image, page 296",
          "text": "Someone may have wanted to trim a local dandy down to size.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of cut down to size"
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "word": "trim down to size"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "trims down to size",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "trimming down to size",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "trimmed down to size",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "trimmed down to size",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "trim down to size (third-person singular simple present trims down to size, present participle trimming down to size, simple past and past participle trimmed down to size)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "word": "cut down to size"
        }
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        "English lemmas",
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        "English terms with quotations",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1962, W. Cleon Skousen, So You Want to Raise a Boy?, page 106",
          "text": "If parents try to trim a 7-year-old egoist down to size with sarcastic quips or disparaging comments, they only add to his sense of inferiority and thereby agitate his continued construction of a defensive front.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Louis L'Amour, To Tame a Land, page 102",
          "text": "I seen him trim Ollie Burdette down to size and run him out of town.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Daniel W. Patterson, The True Image, page 296",
          "text": "Someone may have wanted to trim a local dandy down to size.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of cut down to size"
      ],
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          "cut down to size#English"
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  "word": "trim down to size"
}