Get it together
verb phrase
(Variations: one’s act or one’s head or one’s shit or one’s stuff may replace it) To arrange one’s life or affairs properly; integrate and focus oneself: Get your shit together, said Junior Jones/ why the executive departments of government don’t get their act together/ Congress has to get its shit together (1960s+ Counterculture fr black)
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