pull oneself together
Language: en
Meaning: (idiomatic,reflexive)To becomementallyfocusedafter a period of being unfocused; toregaincontrolof oneself1910,E. M. Forster, chapter 6, inHowards End:"Damn, damn, damnation!" he murmured, together with such other words as he had learnt from older men. Then he raised his hand to his forehead and said, "Oh, damn it all—" which meant something different. Hepulled himself together. He drank a little tea, black and silent, that still survived upon an upper shelf. He swallowed some dusty crumbs of cake. Then he went back to the sitting-room, settled himself anew, and began to read a volume of Ruskin.
Examples:EN: Do you think it's easy to pull oneself together with the dead body?
ID: Kamu pikir mudah mengendalikan diri dengan mayat?
ID: Kamu pikir mudah mengendalikan diri dengan mayat?
Note: the examples for non latin scripts have a high likelihood of mistakes, we do not own any of this data and it is sourced from Wiktionary, the NLLB database and Opensubtitles. Please help us improve this by contributing correct examples. We will be working to fix this issue over time however it is a bigger issue due to the the difficulties in dealing with non latin scripts and grammatical structures(non-romantic/european languages have lower resources as well ). Validation Count: 0
Sourced from Wiktionary