straighten up | Idiomator

Meaning: (intransitive)To becomestraight, orstraighter.2006, American Motoryclist - Jan 2006, Victory's Kingpin goes its own waybank the big cruiser into the first of a series of corners, make a few quick left, right, left transitions, then the roadstraightens upfor a stretch...; (ambitransitive)Tosteerstraight.13 October 2010, Blackpool Gazette, 'Bad driving' led to biker death crashHe said "As I came out of the bend I went tostraighten upthe car and it just seemed to be carrying on turning."; (intransitive)To sit up straight, to stophunching.2005, Heike Lebherz,Riding For Pleasure:Horse skin smells good. Lay your cheek against his neck and have a good cuddle. Nowstraighten upslowly again, and sit loosely.; (transitive)Todeal with; to put in order.1994, Mccook Daily Gazette, Jul 12, 1994, Mail Delivery Trying To Get Up To SpeedThe Postal Service sent a special task force tostraighten upthe city's problems with a back-to-basics approach; (transitive)Totidy; totidy up.2005, Richard R. Simmons,A Long Hard Ride:The lockers were all standing wide open with equipment and uniforms scattered all over the room, he had left a note under the bottle telling me to straighten up the room, then straighten myself up before coming to work the next day.; (transitive)Toclarify.; (intransitive,idiomatic)Tostartlivingareformedlife; toadopta morehonestandrespectablecourseofbehavior.

Examples:

EN: I-I have to straighten up in the kitchen and Henry can help me?
ES: Tengo cosas que hacer en la cocina y Henry puede ayudarme.
EN: - Boy, you got to straighten up.
ES: - Tienes que espabilarte, muchacho.
EN: And go to work, straighten up your shoulders, get some manhood in you.
ES: Y volved a trabajar, arrimando el hombro.
EN: Come on, straighten up.
ES: - ¡Vamos, ponte derecho!
ES: Vamos, enderécese.
EN: Now go on home and straighten up the joint. It looked crummy this morning.
ES: Vete a ordenar la cueva, estaba sucia esta mañana.
EN: Come on, straighten up. Straighten up, now.
ES: Vamos, espabila, espabila.
EN: You've got to straighten up.
ES: Tienes que enderezarte.
EN: I got a couple of things I oughta straighten up and the sooner I go there, the sooner I can get back.
ES: Tengo un par de cosas que debería arreglar y cuanto antes vaya, antes podré volver.
EN: Tell the district attorney I'll be down to straighten up matters in the morning.
ES: Dígale al fiscal que pasaré por allí por la mañana, para arreglar unos asuntos.
EN: - Did you straighten up the living room?
ES: - ¿Arreglaste el salón?
EN: Come on, here, straighten up.
ES: Vamos, ponte derecho.
EN: We'll straighten up the documents lying there like the Tower of Babel.
ES: Acompañadme al archivo. Voy a colocar las tongas de expedientes, que están tan desordenadas como la torre de Babilonia.
EN: Here, straighten up this counter. Put those things away.
ES: Arregle el mostrador.
EN: I'll straighten up a few things here and see you at home later on.
ES: Arreglaré unas cosas aquí y los veré en tu casa más tarde.
EN: I don't feel any pain, but I can't straighten up.
ES: No siento ningún dolor, pero no puedo ponerme derecha.

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 ).