clean up one's act

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clean up one's act (third-person singular simple present cleans up one's act, present participle cleaning up one's act, simple past and past participle cleaned up one's act)

  1. (idiomatic) To reform; to improve one's habits.
    Someday I'm going to clean up my act and start researching more carefully.

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