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pull oneself together



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Idioms and Phrases

Regain one's composure or self-control, as in After that frightening episode, it took her a while to pull herself together . [Second half of 1800s]
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Example Sentences

One ought to pull oneself together and shake off such nonsense.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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pull-onpull oneself up by the bootstraps