one's house in order

English

Alternative forms

• one's household in order

Phrase

one's houses in order

1. (with a verb, resultative) One’s personal situation as it should be, with no problems.

   Make sure to keep your house in order.

   • 1976, United States. Congress. House. Ad Hoc Select Committee on Outer Continental Shelf, Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1975, page 350:

     You have to get your house in order before you write the lease.

   • 2020, Ronnie Lee Johnson, Is Your House in Order: Living in Today's Economy:

     You can get your financial house in order.

   • 2022 November 2, Kate Conger, Ryan Mac, Tiffany Hsu, “Elon Musk Takes a Page Out of Mark Zuckerberg’s Social Media Playbook”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     [T]he group asked Mr. Musk for a multimonth moratorium on changes to Twitter’s policies and enforcement processes related to elections, hate speech and harassment — at least until the midterm election results were final and “he has his house in order,” Ms. Eisenstat said.

See also

• put one's house in order

Further reading

• “one's house in order”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.