get it together—
1. (UK coll.) manage to organize an activity:
- We were planning a trip to India last year, but we never got it together.
2. (sl.) have sex:
- We’d met a few times before, but we didn’t really get it together till Rachel’s party.
get one’s act together—(coll.) get mentally organized (also: get one’s head together):
- It took me a few days to get my act together, but I finally gathered up the nerve to start writing.