one's house in order

phrase

One’s personal situation as it should be, with no problems.

“Make sure to keep your house in order.”

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  1. resultativeOne’s personal situation as it should be, with no problems.

    Make sure to keep your house in order.

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    You have to get your house in order before you write the lease.

    1976, United States. Congress. House. Ad Hoc Select Committee on Outer Continental Shelf, Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1975, page 350

    You can get your financial house in order.

    2020, Ronnie Lee Johnson, Is Your House in Order: Living in Today's Economy

    [T]he group asked Mr. Musk for a multimonth moratorium on changes to Twitter’s policies and enforcement processes related to elections, hate speech and harassment — at least until the midterm election results were final and “he has his house in order,” Ms. Eisenstat said.

    2022 November 2, Kate Conger, Ryan Mac, Tiffany Hsu, “Elon Musk Takes a Page Out of Mark Zuckerberg’s Social Media Playbook”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
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