tv. to reform one's conduct; to improve one's performance. : We were told to clean our act up or move out.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Clean one's act upis always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.