get one's head straight

present singular third person gets one's head straight · participle present getting one's head straight · past got one's head straight · UK participle past got one's head straight · US participle past gotten one's head straight

1. colloquialidiomatictransitiveTo clear one's mind; to think clearly.

   It took me a long time to get my head straight. I met this woman. She was on welfare, had two children, practically illiterate she was; she could barely read the labels on canned food. Lucky they had pictures on most food.

   1978, George Davis, Love, Black Love, Anchor Books, →ISBN

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   I would need to get my head straight before I hurt somebody. Speaking of getting my head straight, I couldn't stand to look at myself in the mirror. My hair was a hot mess. So of course I called the Dominicans and booked yet another[…]

   2009 April 1, Brandi L. Bates, The Head Mistress, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 31

   He had suggested that I should ask my brother to come and live with me in Nightingale Square. Not permanently, just until he got his head straight and some of our mother's inuence out of his system. Jacob thought that being so close to[…]

   2019 May 30, Heidi Swain, Poppy's Recipe for Life: Treat yourself to the gloriously uplifting new book from the Sunday Times bestselling author!, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN

   Hell, don't come to Sweden if you don't want to. Go to Australia or Cancun or Timbuktu for all I care. Just get away for a while so you can get your head straight. The boys are going to need you to have your shit together when the[…]

   2015 May 21, Catherine Gayle, Portland Storm: The Second Period, Bons Mots, Inc., →ISBN