put your house in order

Meaning

1. put / set your (own) house in order

   to organize your own business or improve your own behaviour before you try to criticize sb else

In the movies · 1

• Set your house in order and dig in for the battle to survive.Life of Pi2012

From the same entry

• bring the house down
• get on like a house on fire
• go all round the houses
• keep house
• on the house
• set up house
• clean house
• not a dry eye in the house
• eat out of house and home
• people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
• safe as houses