Word.ws English Dictionary

sort oneself out

sort oneself out verb: to organize or solve one's personal problems.

Verb

sort oneself out (third-person singular simple present sorts oneself out, present participle sorting oneself out, simple past and past participle sorted oneself out)

  1. (idiomatic) To organize or solve one's personal problems.
    • John took a week off work to sort himself out.
  2. (idiomatic) To calm down emotionally.
    • Give me a few minutes to sort myself out and I'll be with you.

Forms of sort oneself out

third-person singular presentsorts oneself out
present participlesorting oneself out
past participlesorted oneself out
pastsorted oneself out

Questions about sort oneself out

What does sort oneself out mean?
Sort oneself out means to organize or solve one's personal problems.
What part of speech is sort oneself out?
Sort oneself out is a verb.
What is the past tense of sort oneself out?
The past tense of sort oneself out is sorted oneself out.

Words near sort oneself out in the dictionary

  1. Sorsogon City
  2. sort
  3. sort code
  4. sort codes
  5. sort of
  6. sort oneself out
  7. sort out
  8. sort the wheat from the chaff
  9. sort through
  10. sort while pick
  11. sort've

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sort oneself out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: En-au-sort oneself out.ogg.

Cite this entry: “sort oneself out.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sort_oneself_out. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.