Idiom
get oneself together
Meaning
Alternative form of pull oneself together.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I need to get myself together before the meeting starts.”
“After failing the exam, she took a deep breath to get herself together and start studying again.”
“Following the sudden collapse of his business, he struggled to get himself together and face the difficult months that lay ahead.”
Examples
simple
“I need to get myself together before the meeting starts.”
contextual
“After failing the exam, she took a deep breath to get herself together and start studying again.”
complex
“Following the sudden collapse of his business, he struggled to get himself together and face the difficult months that lay ahead.”
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