I gotta collect myself together

This jumbled mess was heard on the TV series MasterChef. It is a congruent conflation of “collect (oneself)” and “pull (oneself) together”, both meaning to calm oneself down and begin to act or think appropriately. A tip of the toque to Anthony Kovacs for hearing this one and sending it in.



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