Idiom
straighten up and fly right
Meaning
To start behaving properly; get one's act together.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“You need to straighten up and fly right.”
“The manager told the employee to straighten up and fly right if he wanted to keep his job.”
“After years of reckless choices, he finally decided to straighten up and fly right to earn back his family's trust.”
Examples
simple
“You need to straighten up and fly right.”
contextual
“The manager told the employee to straighten up and fly right if he wanted to keep his job.”
complex
“After years of reckless choices, he finally decided to straighten up and fly right to earn back his family's trust.”
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