collect one's thoughts
verbDefinitions
To become mentally composed, especially after being distressed, surprised, or disoriented
To become mentally composed, especially after being distressed, surprised, or disoriented; to become calm or organized in one's emotional state or thinking, as in preparation for a conversation, speech, decision, etc.
- I got up feverish and nervous. I walked out before breakfast, striving to collect my thoughts and tranquilize my feelings.
- I took a moment to collect my thoughts, and likewise to frame in French the sentence by which I proposed to open business.
- She fell sprawling upon a green meadow and was so dazed and bewildered by her bumpy journey across the Merry-Go-Round Mountains that she lay quite still for a time to collect her thoughts.
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