Get Your Act Together: Organization Is the Name of the Game

Some expressions that might be heard at business meetings.
18 October 2006

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"get your act together."

"Stop making mistakes. Get your act together."

"Let us get our act together."

Getting your act together is getting organized. In business, it usually means to develop a calm and orderly plan of action.

"Calm down, now. Get your act together."

"get its act together."

"Getting Our Act Together."

"cut to the chase."

"Cut to the chase."

Cut to the chase means to stop spending so much time on details or unimportant material. Hurry and get to the good part.

cut to the chase, be sure to get to the main point of your story quickly.


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