2：We have to put the house in order in two days: I want desks clean, the whole place looking good. And we need our accounts balanced up to date by five o'clock tomorrow afternoon.

他要求大家把办公桌整理干净，使整个办公室显得整洁美观。然后还要大家在明天下午五点前把最近的帐目都结清。

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" Kuala Lumpur's priority, he added, was to "put our house in order -- improve economic fundamentals by tightening fiscal policy, postponing some mega-projects and bringing the current-account deficit down.

CNN: A QUESTION OF OPENNESS

This is a root and branch review, it's our once and for all chance to actually put our house in order, show it's above board, make sure that we've got the proper support services for MPs, so they can do their job properly for the public, but make sure the public have got confidence in it.

BBC: Harriet Harman interview

We need to put our fiscal house in order again.

CNN: Clinton's October 9, 2007 speech on retirement security