Meaning of one's house in order | Babel Free

Definitions

One’s personal situation as it should be, with no problems.

resultative

Examples

“Make sure to keep your house in order.”

“You have to get your house in order before you write the lease.”

“You can get your financial house in order.”

“[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.”

CEFR level