put to rights

Idioms and Phrases

see set to rights ; also put right .

Example Sentences

Presently Queen Lucy came out from the castle and joined them and King Lune said to Aravis, "My dear, here is a loving friend of our house, and she has been seeing that your apartments are put to rights for you better than I could have done it."

From Literature

For me, "dystopia" isn't a system that is breaking down — it's a system that, when it breaks down, spirals out of control, rather than being put to rights by people of goodwill and good faith.

From Los Angeles Times

He probably won’t “adhere to the conventions, as requested....If he would just get a grip on himself for once, how much could still be put to rights. Poor chap, what a difficult, young life with so little fulfillment and so much deprivation, what will become of him?”

From Literature

But one project the most recent legacy leadership class explored should be relatively easy to put to rights.

From Washington Times

By eleven-thirty, everything was ready, and after the meal had been plated the kitchen was put to rights.

From The New Yorker

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