"pull oneself together" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-pull oneself together.ogg Forms: pulls oneself together [present, singular, third-person], pulling oneself together [participle, present], pulled oneself together [participle, past], pulled oneself together [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} pull oneself together (third-person singular simple present pulls oneself together, present participle pulling oneself together, simple past and past participle pulled oneself together)
  1. (idiomatic, reflexive) To become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused; to regain control of oneself Tags: idiomatic, reflexive Synonyms: pull one's shit together Translations (to become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused): özünü yığışdırmaq (Azerbaijani), идвам на себе си (idvam na sebe si) (Bulgarian), 振作起來 (Chinese Mandarin), 振作起来 (zhènzuò qǐlái) (Chinese Mandarin), 鎮定下來 (Chinese Mandarin), 镇定下来 (zhèndìng xiàlái) (Chinese Mandarin), ryhdistäytyä (Finnish), koota itsensä (Finnish), se ressaisir (French), sich zusammenreißen (German), összeszedi magát (Hungarian), stramma sig af (Icelandic), 気を取り直す (ki o torinaosu) (alt: きをとりなおす) (Japanese), mē recolligō (Latin), brać się w garść (Polish), wziąć się w garść [perfective] (Polish), recompor-se (Portuguese), aduna (Romanian), reveni (Romanian), приходи́ть в себя́ (prixodítʹ v sebjá) [imperfective] (Russian), прийти́ в себя́ (prijtí v sebjá) [perfective] (Russian), собира́ться (sobirátʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), собра́ться (sobrátʹsja) [perfective] (Russian), брать себя́ в ру́ки (bratʹ sebjá v rúki) [imperfective] (Russian), взять себя́ в ру́ки (vzjatʹ sebjá v rúki) [perfective] (Russian), recobrar la compostura (Spanish), recomponerse (Spanish), samla sig (Swedish), skärpa sig (Swedish)

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          "sense": "to become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused",
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          "sense": "to become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused",
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          "sense": "to become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused",
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          "roman": "sobirátʹsja",
          "sense": "to become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused",
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          "sense": "to become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused",
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      "sense": "to become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused",
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      "sense": "to become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused",
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      "sense": "to become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused",
      "word": "sich zusammenreißen"
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      "sense": "to become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused",
      "word": "összeszedi magát"
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      "sense": "to become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused",
      "word": "stramma sig af"
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      "sense": "to become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused",
      "word": "気を取り直す"
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      "sense": "to become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused",
      "word": "mē recolligō"
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      "sense": "to become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused",
      "word": "brać się w garść"
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      "sense": "to become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused",
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      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused",
      "word": "aduna"
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      "sense": "to become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused",
      "word": "reveni"
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      "roman": "prixodítʹ v sebjá",
      "sense": "to become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "приходи́ть в себя́"
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      "roman": "prijtí v sebjá",
      "sense": "to become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused",
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      "word": "прийти́ в себя́"
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      "roman": "sobirátʹsja",
      "sense": "to become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused",
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      "roman": "bratʹ sebjá v rúki",
      "sense": "to become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused",
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      "sense": "to become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused",
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      "sense": "to become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused",
      "word": "recobrar la compostura"
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      "sense": "to become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused",
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      "sense": "to become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused",
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  "word": "pull oneself together"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.