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clean up act
clean up your act
to improve your behavior He used to drink a lot, but he seems to have cleaned up his act.
clean up your act
(informal) to stop doing things that other people do not approve of and start to behave in a more acceptable way There's a very strong anti-press feeling at the moment. A lot of people think it's time they cleaned up their act.
clean up (one's) act
Slang To improve one's behavior or performance.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
| Michelina | | mee-ke-LEE-nah | Italian |
| Candida | | KAN-di-də (English) | Late Roman, English |
| Aleksei | | ah-lyek-SYAY (Russian), ah-leek-SYAY (Russian) | Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian |
| MaximiliÁN | | - | Slovak |
| Cvetko | | - | Slovene |
| Kalyana | | - | Indian, Telugu |