clean up one's act

English

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Verb

clean up one's act (third-person singular simple present cleans up one's act, present participle cleaning up one's act, simple past and past participle cleaned up one's act)

1. (idiomatic) To reform; to improve one's habits.

   Someday I'm going to clean up my act and start researching more carefully.

Related terms

• get one's act together

Translations

reform

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 改善自己的習慣／改善自己的习惯 (gǎishàn zìjǐ de xíguàn), 改邪歸正／改邪归正 (zh) (gǎixiéguīzhèng)

• Finnish: parantaa tapansa
• French: se ranger des voitures (fr), s’acheter une conduite (fr)
• German: zusammenreißen (de) (reflexive / coll.), seine Gewohnheiten verändern
• Italian: darsi una regolata, mettersi in riga
• Russian: исправля́ться (ru) impf (ispravljátʹsja), испра́виться (ru) pf (isprávitʹsja)

See also

• turn over a new leaf