| Subject | English | Russian |
| slang | clean one's act up | улучшать качество исполняемой работы (Interex) |
| gen. | clean up one's act | взяться за ум (begin to behave in a better way, especially by giving up alcohol, drugs, or illegal activities: You're going to have to clean up your act if you want to get into a good college. • Tish has really cleaned up her act – she doesn't drink or smoke pot any more. Anglophile) |
| gen. | clean up one's act | браться за ум (begin to behave in a better way, especially by giving up alcohol, drugs, or illegal activities Anglophile) |
| gen. | clean up one's act | образумиться (chingachguk1977) |
| gen. | clean up one's act | взяться за голову (в знач. "взяться за ум": You're going to have to clean up your act if you want to get into a good college. 4uzhoj) |
| gen. | clean up one's act | браться за голову (в знач. "браться за ум": However, in the end, it all goes wrong: Oliver's inventions do not seem to work, and so following his dreams' breakdown into nothingness through an alcoholic haze, his very humanity follows suit: "...Oliver has become an animal." Along the process, Elaine effectively kicks Oliver out of the house, exiling him to a lonely fate – "I told him to clean up his act or get out." 4uzhoj) |
| gen. | clean up one's act | исправиться (Someday I'm going to clean up my act and start researching more carefully. bookworm) |
| gen. | clean up one's act | встать на путь исправления (chingachguk1977) |
| gen. | clean up one's act | начать вести себя подобающим образом |
| idiom. | clean up own act first | разобраться сначала в своём доме (Beforeyouaccuseme) |
| idiom. | clean up own act first | разобраться сначала с собой (Beforeyouaccuseme) |
| inf. | Clean up your act! | Наведи порядок в своей жизни! (Andrey Truhachev) |
| inf. | Clean up your act! | Возьмись за голову! (Andrey Truhachev) |
| inf. | Clean up your act! | Возьмись за ум! (Andrey Truhachev) |
| inf. | Clean up your act! | Исправляйся! (Andrey Truhachev) |
| inf. | Clean up your act! | упорядочи свою жизнь! (Andrey Truhachev) |
| gen. | Clean up your act | исправить поведение (Grebelnikov) |
