one's house in order
English
Alternative forms
- one's household in order
Noun
one's house in order (plural one's houses in order)
- One's personal situation as it should be, with no problems.
- 1976, United States. Congress. House. Ad Hoc Select Committee on Outer Continental Shelf, Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1975, page 350:
- You have to get your house in order before you write the lease.
- 2020, Ronnie Lee Johnson, Is Your House in Order: Living in Today's Economy:
- You can get your financial house in order.
- 2022 November 2, Kate Conger; Ryan Mac; Tiffany Hsu, “Elon Musk Takes a Page Out of Mark Zuckerberg’s Social Media Playbook”, in The New York Times, ISSN 0362-4331:
- [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.
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Usage notes
- Commonly used with have, put, get, set, etc.
See also
- put one's house in order
Further reading
- “one's house in order”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary