Example: Pour avancer dans son projet, il faut mettre de l'ordre dans ses idées rapidement.
Definition
"Mettre de l'ordre dans ses idées" means organizing one's thoughts clearly and logically to better understand and manage them. It involves arranging ideas in a coherent way to facilitate decision-making or problem-solving, often used to describe mental clarity or preparation.
Translations
To sort out one's thoughts
Ordenar las ideas
Je gedachten ordenen
Posar ordre a les idees
Seine Gedanken ordnen
Etymology
The phrase "Mettre de l'ordre dans ses idées" originates from French, where "mettre" means to put, "de l'ordre" means order, and "ses idées" means one's thoughts. It literally translates to putting order into one's ideas, reflecting the common metaphor of organizing mental content as if tidying a physical space.
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To sort out one's thoughts