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straighten out
verb- to correct someone; to put someone right UK, 1956
- [N]ot only would the snafu have been straightened out more quickly, but the celebrities would have been on the angels. — Bill O’Reilly, Who’s Looking Out for You?, p. 95, 2003
- (of a drug addict) to cease drug use UK
- Two years ago, the Kirks flew Cameron out to Nairobi [...] to straighten him out. It was a disastrous move–Cameron was soon injecting up to a gramme a day of heroin, purer than he had dreamed possible in England. — The Guardian, 19 April 2001
- to feel the effects of a drug, relieving any pangs of withdrawal US
- Like I might find old Joe Schmoe today and buy three bags from him and find that one bag straightens me out. — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 46, 1966
- How about us getting some speed, see, and then after we’re all straightened out, we’ll all jump in the car and head down to four-fifty[.] — Drugstore Cowboy, 1988
- to bring someone up to date US
- The man at the window there was a fellow countryman of mine downstairs who might straighten me out. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 191, 1946
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