one's house in order

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one's houses in order

  1. (with a verb, resultative) One’s personal situation as it should be, with no problems.
    Make sure to keep your house in order.
    • 1976, United States. Congress. House. Ad Hoc Select Committee on Outer Continental Shelf, Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1975, page 350:
      You have to get your house in order before you write the lease.
    • 2020, Ronnie Lee Johnson, Is Your House in Order: Living in Today's Economy:
      You can get your financial house in order.
    • 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:
      [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.

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