get one's head straight

Meaning: (idiomatic,transitive,colloquial)To clear one's mind; to think clearly.1978, George Davis,Love, Black Love, Anchor Books,→ISBN:It took me a long time toget my head straight. I met this woman. She was on welfare, had two children, practically illiterate she was; she could barely read the labels on canned food. Lucky they had pictures on most food.2009April 1, Brandi L. Bates,The Head Mistress, AuthorHouse,→ISBN, page31:I would need toget my head straightbefore I hurt somebody. Speaking ofgetting my head straight, I couldn't stand to look at myself in the mirror. My hair was a hot mess. So of course I called the Dominicans and booked yet another[…]2019May 30, Heidi Swain,Poppy's Recipe for Life: Treat yourself to the gloriously uplifting new book from the Sunday Times bestselling author!, Simon and Schuster,→ISBN:He had suggested that I should ask my brother to come and live with me in Nightingale Square. Not permanently, just until hegot his head straightand some of our mother's inuence out of his system. Jacob thought that being so close to[…]2015May 21, Catherine Gayle,Portland Storm: The Second Period, Bons Mots, Inc.,→ISBN:Hell, don't come to Sweden if you don't want to. Go to Australia or Cancun or Timbuktu for all I care. Just get away for a while so you canget your head straight. The boys are going to need you to have your shit together when the[…]

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