get it together
Example Sentences
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How can I ask him to, more or less, get it together financially?
From MarketWatch • Jan. 14, 2026
None of our stops were coordinated; you’d think everyone would go to the bathroom at one particular exit, but we couldn't get it together as we stopped over and over again.
From Salon • Mar. 29, 2024
Ol’ heads were chattin’ that if Nick Saban didn’t get it together soon, Prime would roll into Tuscaloosa next and, then naturally, all hell would break loose.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2023
She needs to get it together and stop living off of her mother, who survives on a fixed income.
From Slate • Mar. 10, 2023
I try my hardest to get it together, to stop crying like such a baby in front of him, but I just end up crying harder.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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