"clean up one's act" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-clean up one's act.ogg Forms: cleans up one's act [present, singular, third-person], cleaning up one's act [participle, present], cleaned up one's act [participle, past], cleaned up one's act [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*|head=clean up one's act}} 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. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: get one's act together, turn over a new leaf Translations (reform): 改善自己的習慣 (Chinese Mandarin), 改善自己的习惯 (gǎishàn zìjǐ de xíguàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 改邪歸正 (Chinese Mandarin), 改邪归正 (gǎixiéguīzhèng) (Chinese Mandarin), parantaa tapansa (Finnish), se ranger des voitures (French), s’acheter une conduite (French), zusammenreißen (english: reflexive / coll.) (German), seine Gewohnheiten verändern (German), darsi una regolata (Italian), mettersi in riga (Italian), исправля́ться (ispravljátʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), испра́виться (isprávitʹsja) [perfective] (Russian)

Inflected forms

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        "(idiomatic) To reform; to improve one's habits."
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "sense": "reform",
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      "sense": "reform",
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