Practising verbs and idioms (showing effort, success) 1. He wasn't doing well at work last week so now he has to get his act together and make up for lost time. 2. We came up against that software issue a couple of days ago and since then we appear to have been running in circles (where can I put the word "just" here in?). I think it's high time to bring in Alice and ask her to pitch in. 3. Nothing seemed to make it any better at that moment , but eventually she managed to get her act together and pulled out all the stops . 4. I don't like that fitful manner. I'd rather be studying gradually, little by little, than doing nothing for weeks, leaving it to the last moment and then trying to make up for lost time and going all out. 5. I don't even have a clue how he's going to pull it off. I wonder if he can make it , given that he cannot bring anyone else in.