put one's house in order

Arrange one's affairs, as in Stop meddling in your daughter's business and put your own house in order. This metaphoric term appears in slightly different form in the Bible (Isaiah 38:1): "Set thine house in order." [Late 1500s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Alv	-	Norwegian
Eldar	-	Azerbaijani
Teodora	te-o-DAW-rah (Italian), te-o-DHO-rah (Spanish), te-aw-DAW-rah (Polish)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Romanian, Polish, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian
Aideen	AY-deen	Irish
Jennifer	JEN-i-fər (English)	English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish
Marcelinho	-	Portuguese