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If you want to wipe the floor with someone, you should first put your own house in order  ... "
Winston  Churchill

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to win a complete victory over someone in a competition or argument. The British phrase is wipe the floor with someone.

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To defeat someone in a game, competition or argument:defeat, win, beat...



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jeder kehre vor seiner Tuer

vor der eigenen Tьre kehren / fegen

sich um seine eigenen Angelegenheiten / Pflichten kьmmern (und nicht um fremde); selbstkritisch sein S   

"Bevor wir andere kritisieren, sollten wir erst einmal vor der eigenen Tьr kehren!"; "Es ist einfacher, mit dem Finger auf andere zu zeigen, als vor der eigenen Tьre zu fegen"; "Ein Kehren vor der eigenen Tьre wдre angebracht!"; "So berechtigt diese Kritik ist, so muss das Handwerk in Deutschland auch vor der eigenen Tьre kehren"; "Anstatt vor der eigenen Tьre zu kehren, schieben sie den schwarzen Peter ihren Kunden zu"; "Der Trainer Michael Brauch hдlt sich mit der Kritik am Unparteiischen jedoch zurьck und kehrt lieber vor der eigenen Tьre: 'Wir haben mehr Fehler gemacht als der Unparteiische'"; "Jeder fege vor seiner eigenen Tьr!"  umgangssprachlich, fegen: selten; Diese Redensart ist seit dem 16. Jahrhundert belegt, wahrscheinlich aber дlter. Goethe hat sie in seinen "Zahmen Xenien" (9. Buch) wie folgt gestaltet: "Ein jeder kehre vor seiner Tьr, / Und rein 



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put house in order
 
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Related to put house in order: put one's house in order



put one's (own) house in order

To put into order or resolve one's own personal problems or business affairs. The president and his administration sorely need to put their house in order or they may not live to see a second term in office. Jim should go about putting his own house in order before he starts criticizing how I live my life!

See also: house, order, put

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put one's house in order

Fig. to put one's business or personal affairs into good order. (As if one were cleaning one's house. See also put one's own house in order.) There was some trouble in the department office and the manager was told to put his house in order. Every now and then, I have to put my house in order. Then life becomes more manageable.

See also: house, order, put

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.


put/set your (own) ;house in order
 organize your own business or improve your own behaviour before you try to criticize somebody else: A government official warned the newspaper industry to put its own house in order before it started to tell other industries how they should be run.
See also: house, order, put, set

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