set your (own) house in order
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put your (own) house in order — put/set your (own) ˈhouse in order idiom to organize your own business or improve your own behaviour before you try to criticize sb else Main entry: ↑houseidiom … Useful english dictionary
house in order — ◇ To put/get/set (etc.) your house in order is to improve or correct the way you do things. We should get our (own) house in order before we criticize others for their mistakes. The company needs to get its financial house in order. [=to correct… … Useful english dictionary
put one's house in order — or[set one s house in order] {v. phr.} To arrange your affairs in good order. * /Grandfather knew he would not live long and set his house in order./ * /When Mr. Black died, his lawyer helped the widow put her house in order./ … Dictionary of American idioms
put one's house in order — or[set one s house in order] {v. phr.} To arrange your affairs in good order. * /Grandfather knew he would not live long and set his house in order./ * /When Mr. Black died, his lawyer helped the widow put her house in order./ … Dictionary of American idioms
house — 1 / haUs/ plural houses / haUziz/ noun (C) 1 WHERE YOU LIVE a) a building that you live in, especially one that has more than one level and is intended to be used by one family: a four bedroom house | Why don t you all come over to our house for… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
set your house in order — put/set/get/your house in order old fashioned phrase to improve the way that you behave or do things, especially before criticizing how other people behave or do things Thesaurus: to organize your own affairssynonym Main entry … Useful english dictionary
house — house1 W1S1 [haus] n plural houses [ˈhauzız] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(where someone lives)¦ 2¦(building)¦ 3¦(government)¦ 4¦(company)¦ 5¦(theatre)¦ 6 in house 7 put/set/get your (own) house in order 8 bring the house down … Dictionary of contemporary English
order — 1 noun 1 FOR A PURPOSE a) in order to do sth for the purpose of doing something: politicians who make promises simply in order to win more votes | In order to understand how the human body works, you need to have some knowledge of chemistry. b)… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
order — or|der1 W1S1 [ˈo:də US ˈo:rdər] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(for a purpose)¦ 2¦(arrangement)¦ 3¦(instruction)¦ 4¦(controlled situation)¦ 5¦(well organized state)¦ 6¦(for food or drink)¦ 7¦(for goods)¦ 8 be out of order 9 be in order … Dictionary of contemporary English
Choose Your Own Adventure — This article is about the specific book series. For the genre, see Gamebook. For the TV series, see Lawrence Leung s Choose Your Own Adventure. Choose Your Own Adventure is a series of children s gamebooks where each story is written from a… … Wikipedia
