A: You need to get your act together and finish packing so that we can leave for the airport on time tomorrow morning.

B: Don’t worry. We’re almost done here.

Note: This idiom means “to take action to become well-organized, prepared, or in a better state of life.” If you get your act together, you organize yourself effectively so that you can deal successfully with things. The origins of this saying are not entirely clear. Some believe that it originated in the movie and theater industry. It might have been used to encourage actors to get their performance or “act” in order and shake off the nerves. It came into everyday use in the mid-1900s.