Emotions & feelings
pull yourself together
regain emotional control
To pull yourself together is to calm down and regain control of your feelings.
Hear it in real life
Are you ready to go back in?
Almost—I just need to pull myself together.
I went outside for a minute to pull myself together.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: I pulled together myself before the interview.
Say: I pulled myself together before the interview.
The reflexive pronoun goes between “pull” and “together” in this phrase.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
pull yourself together; try to pull yourself together
Your turn: say it out loud
I went outside for a minute to pull myself together.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
pull yourself together
regain emotional control
“I went outside for a minute to pull myself together.”
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