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  • 21put your house in order — put/set/get/your house in order old fashioned phrase to improve the way that you behave or do things, especially before criticizing how other people behave or do things Thesaurus: to organize your own affairssynonym Main entry …

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  • 22Order of the Phoenix (organisation) — Order of the Phoenix Harry Potter association Some Order of the Phoenix members in the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix film adaptation, from left to right: Alastor Moody, Nymphadora Tonks, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Albus Dumbledore …

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  • 23Order of the Bath — Badge of a Companion of the Order of the Bath (Military Division) Awarded by the Queen of the United Kingdom Motto TRIA IUNCTA IN UNO …

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  • 24Order of Servites —     Order of Servites     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Order of Servites     (SERVANTS OF MARY).     The Order of Servites is the fifth mendicant order, the objects of which are the sanctification of its members, preaching the Gospel, and the… …

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  • 25order — [ôr′dər] n. [OFr ordre < L ordo (gen. ordinis), straight row, regular series, akin to ordiri, to lay the warp, hence begin, set in order, prob. < IE base * ar , to join, fit > ARM1, ART1] 1. social position; rank in the community 2. a… …

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  • 26put the cart before the horse — See: CART BEFORE THE HORSE …

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  • 27put the cart before the horse — See: CART BEFORE THE HORSE …

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  • 28put your affairs in order — phrase to organize the things relating to your personal life, for example your financial situation, especially so that there will not be any difficulties after you die Thesaurus: to organize your own affairssynonym Main entry: affair …

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  • 29put the carriage before the horse — If you put the carriage before the horse, you try to do things in the wrong order …

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  • 30order — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I n. orderliness (see order); command; class, kind, rank; society, fellowship, guild (see party); succession, sequence. II Prescribed mode of procedure Nouns 1. order, orderliness, regularity, uniformity …

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