There's a very strong anti-press feeling at the moment. A lot of people think it's time they cleaned up their act.
New idioms dictionary. 2014.
clean up your act — see clean up at ↑clean, 2 • • • Main Entry: ↑act * * * clean up your ˈact idiom (informal) to start behaving in a moral or responsible way • … Useful english dictionary
clean up your act — clean up its/your act INFORMAL ► to start to obey laws or accepted standards of behaviour: »There are still serious questions about whether the company has cleaned up its act since its $11 billion accounting fraud was exposed. Main Entry: ↑clean … Financial and business terms
clean up your act — do it better, do it legally, get your act together I ve missed classes, failed tests. I need to clean up my act … English idioms
clean up its act — clean up its/your act INFORMAL ► to start to obey laws or accepted standards of behaviour: »There are still serious questions about whether the company has cleaned up its act since its $11 billion accounting fraud was exposed. Main Entry: ↑clean … Financial and business terms
clean up its/your act — INFORMAL ► to start to obey laws or accepted standards of behaviour: »There are still serious questions about whether the company has cleaned up its act since its $11 billion accounting fraud was exposed. Main Entry: ↑clean … Financial and business terms
clean up act — clean up (your) act informal to stop doing things that other people do not approve of and start to behave in a more acceptable way. There s a very strong anti press feeling at the moment. A lot of people think it s time they cleaned up their act … New idioms dictionary
clean — clean1 W2 [kli:n] adj comparative cleaner superlative cleanest ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(not dirty)¦ 2¦(people/animals)¦ 3¦(environment)¦ 4¦(fair or legal)¦ 5¦(not offensive)¦ 6 come clean 7 make a clean breast of it … Dictionary of contemporary English
clean — 1 /kli:n/ adjective 1 WITHOUT DIRT without any dirt or marks: Are your hands clean? | a clean towel | sweep/scrub etc sth clean: Wipe that sink clean when you re done. | clean and tidy/neat: Try to keep your room clean and tidy. | spotlessly… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
clean — In the context of general equities, block trade that matches buy or sell orders/interests, sparing the block trader any inventory risk (no net position and hence none available for additional customers). natural. Antithesis of open. Bloomberg… … Financial and business terms
act — act1 W1S1 [ækt] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(action)¦ 2¦(law)¦ 3¦(pretending)¦ 4 get your act together 5¦(play)¦ 6¦(performance)¦ 7¦(performer)¦ 8 a hard/tough etc act to follow 9 get in on the act 10 act of God … Dictionary of contemporary English
