straighten out

Verb

• put (things or places) in order
  • Tidy up your room!
    

• make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
  • Could you clarify these remarks?
    
  • Clear up the question of who is at fault
    

• make straight

• change for the better
  • The lazy student promised to reform
    
  • the habitual cheater finally saw the light
    

• extricate from entanglement
  • Can you disentangle the cord?
    

• settle or put right
  • we need to iron out our disagreements
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  tidy , tidy up , clean up , neaten , straighten , square away , reform , see the light , disentangle , unsnarl , iron out , put right
• Antonyms: 
  entangle , tangle , mat , snarl