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straighten up

verb

Make tidy, as in Let's get this room straightened up . [Second half of 1800s]

The idea was to put the fear of God in Fatah so they would straighten up, but instead Hamas won—and so did Israel.

Straighten up and fly right: the capsule is rolling and jettisoning its remaining ballast masses for parachute deploy.

Hurry and shave, you know how smooth Jasper Jones' chin always looks, and then straighten up this room.

"Well, I think we had better go in and take some peaches and straighten up that disorderly house," said the elder sister.

Donald could see the tall figure of the mate straighten up and a saturnine laugh came from his direction.

A rustling in the trees caused him to straighten up suddenly and with a startled jump he glared about on all sides.

Emma drove away down the road with Jim, but Sarah remained to straighten up the house.

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