"collect one's wits" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "collects one's wits",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "collecting one's wits",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "collected one's wits",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "collected one's wits",
      "tags": [
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1922, Agatha Christie, “Chapter 16”, in The Secret Adversary:",
          "text": "\"He is coming to,\" remarked a voice very near Tommy's ear. He recognized it at once for that of the bearded and efficient German, and lay artistically inert. He felt that it would be a pity to come round too soon; and until the pain in his head became a little less acute, he felt quite incapable of collecting his wits.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of collect one's thoughts"
      ],
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          "collect one's thoughts",
          "collect one's thoughts#English"
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          "word": "collect one's thoughts"
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  "word": "collect one's wits"
}

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    {
      "form": "collects one's wits",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "collecting one's wits",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "collected one's wits",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "collected one's wits",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "*"
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      "expansion": "collect one's wits (third-person singular simple present collects one's wits, present participle collecting one's wits, simple past and past participle collected one's wits)",
      "name": "en-verb"
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        {
          "ref": "1922, Agatha Christie, “Chapter 16”, in The Secret Adversary:",
          "text": "\"He is coming to,\" remarked a voice very near Tommy's ear. He recognized it at once for that of the bearded and efficient German, and lay artistically inert. He felt that it would be a pity to come round too soon; and until the pain in his head became a little less acute, he felt quite incapable of collecting his wits.",
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        "Synonym of collect one's thoughts"
      ],
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          "collect one's thoughts#English"
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