hold (oneself) together Thành ngữ, tục ngữ

birds of a feather flock together

get it all together

get it together

get together

get your act together

get your head together

get your shit together

keep body and soul together

lump together

pull together

pull yourself together

put our heads together

put two and two together

scrape together

slap together

throw together

together

hang together

lay heads together

lay/put heads together

merge together

piece together

pull oneself together

put heads together

put together

stick together

throw sth together

CARELESSNESS

to assemble or arrange something in haste.
• Don't just slap something together! Use care and do it right.
• You assembled this device very badly. It seems that you just slapped it together.
• John went into the kitchen to throw together something for dinner.

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scrape sth together

Idiom(s): scrape sth together

Theme: COLLECT

to assemble something quickly, usually from a small supply of components.
• I'll try to scrape something together for dinner.
• We really should try to have a party to celebrate the boss's birthday. Let's try to scrape together a little something.

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put sth together

Idiom(s): put sth together

Theme: CONSIDER

to consider some facts and arrive at a conclusion.
• I couldn't put everything together to figure out the answer in time.
• When I put together all the facts, I found the answer.

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pull sth together

Idiom(s): pull sth together

Theme: ORGANIZATION

to organize something; to arrange something.
• How about a party? I'll see if I can pull something together for Friday night.
• This place is a mess. Please pull things together.

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knock some heads together

Idiom(s): knock some heads together

Theme: MOTIVATION

to motivate people; to make people to do what they are supposed to be doing. (Slang.)
• If you kids don't quiet down and go to sleep, I'm going to come up there and knock some heads together.
• The government is in a mess. We need to go to Washington and knock some heads together.

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in the altogether

Idiom(s): in the altogether AND in the buff; in the raw

Theme: Nakedness

naked; nude. (Informal. In can be replaced with into.)
• We often went swimming in the altogether down at the creek.
• The museum has a painting of some ladies in the buff.
• Mary felt a little shy about getting into the altogether.
• Bill says he sleeps in the raw.

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go together

Idiom(s): go together

Theme: HARMONY

[for two things] to look, sound, or taste good together.
• Do you think that this pink one and this purple one go together?
• Milk and grapefruit don't go together.

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slap sth together

Idiom(s): throw something together AND slap something together

Theme: CARELESSNESS

to assemble or arrange something in haste.
• Don't just slap something together! Use care and do it right.
• You assembled this device very badly. It seems that you just slapped it together.
• John went into the kitchen to throw together something for dinner.

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Birds of a feather flock together.

People of the same sort are usually found together.

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put together

assemble
"I have to put the crib together before the baby arrives."

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Not have two pennies to rub together

If someone hasn't got two pennies to rub together, they are very poor indeed.

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Put your heads together

If people put their head together, they exchange ideas about something.

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to not have a bean to rub together

"Those two don't earn enough money. They don't have a bean to rub together."

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band together|band

v. phr. To join a group to exert united force. The inhabitants of the ecologically threatened area banded together to stop the company from building new smokestacks.

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birds of a feather flock together|bird|birds|birds

People who are alike often become friends or are together; if you are often with certain people, you may be their friends or like them. A proverb. Don't be friends with bad boys. People think that birds of a feather flock together.

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get it all together|get|get it

v. phr. 1. To be in full possession and control of one's mental faculties; have a clear purpose well pursued. You've sure got it all together, haven't you? 2. Retaining one's self-composure under pressure. A few minutes after the burglars left he got it all together and called the police. 3. To be well built, stacked (said of girls and women.) Sue's sure got it all together, hasn't she?

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get together(1)|get|get together

v. To come to an agreement; agree. Mother says I should finish my arithmetic lesson, and Father says I should mow the lawn. Why don't you two get together?

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get-together(2)|get|get together

n. A party; a gathering. I hate to break up this nice get-together but we must leave. We manage to have a get-together with our old friends once or twice a year.

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go together|go

v. 1. To go with the same boy or girl all the time; date just one person. Herbert and Thelma go together.
Compare: GO STEADY, GO WITH², KEEP COMPANY. 2. To be suitable or agreeable with each other; match. Roast turkey and cranberries go together. Ice cream and cake go together. Green and yellow go together.

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hang together|hang

v. 1. To stay united; help and defend one another. The club members always hung together when one of them was in trouble.
Synonym: STICK TOGETHER.
Compare: STAND BY, STAND UP FOR. 2. informal To form a satisfactory whole; fit together. Jack's story of why he was absent from school seems to hang together.

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keep body and soul together|body|body and soul|kee

v. phr. To keep alive; survive. John was unemployed most of the year and hardly made enough money to keep body and soul together.
Compare: KEEP THE WOLF FROM THE DOOR.

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pull oneself together|pull|together

v. phr. To become calm after being excited or disturbed; recover self-command; control yourself. It had been a disturbing moment, but he was able to pull himself together.

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pull together|pull

v. To join your efforts with those of others; work on a task together; cooperate. Many men must pull together if a large business is to succeed. Tim was a good football captain because he always got his teammates to pull together.

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put their heads together|head|heads|lay their head

v. phr., informal To plan or consider things together; discuss something as a group; talk it over. They put their heads together and decided on a gift. We laid our heads together and decided to have a picnic.

hold (oneself) together

To calm oneself down and activate to anticipate or act appropriately. I apperceive you're fatigued out, but you charge to authority yourself calm and get this address done! We charge you to be focused, so authority yourself together!Learn more: hold, together

hold together

1. To accumulate the basic genitalia of article together. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "hold" and "together." Here's a adhesive blow to authority your address together. I don't anticipate cement will authority the baby calm for long.2. To account a accumulation of bodies to abide together. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "hold" and "together." My aunt was the cement that captivated our ancestors together. Afterwards she died, I hardly anytime saw my relatives.3. To calm oneself down and activate to anticipate or act appropriately. In this usage, a automatic pronoun is acclimated amid "hold" and "together." I apperceive you're fatigued out, but you charge to authority yourself calm and get this address done! We charge you to be focused, so authority yourself together!4. To be operational or functional. Based on the sounds it's making, I don't anticipate the backyard mower is activity to authority calm for abundant longer.5. To fit calm in a analytic or alive manner. I anticipate they're lying because genitalia of their adventure aloof don't authority together.Learn more: hold, together

hold oneself together

Fig. to advance one's calmness or sanity. I don't apperceive if I can authority myself calm through addition abhorrent day like this one. I don't apperceive how she captivated herself calm through all her troubles.Learn more: hold, together

hold someone or something together

to accumulate a accumulation of bodies or things together. She formed at two jobs in adjustment to authority her ancestors together. Our club was declining admitting our efforts to authority it together.Learn more: hold, together

hold something together

to accumulate the genitalia of an article together. Hold this burst boutonniere calm until I get aback with the glue. What can I use to authority this together?Learn more: hold, together

hold together

[for something] to accumulate from falling apart. Don't run the agent too fast because it won't authority together. Do you anticipate that this book will authority calm abundant longer?Learn more: hold, together

hold together

v.
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