clean your room

Put things away

Clean your room is a command to tidy one's personal space, typically directed at children or teenagers by parents.

The phrase has become a cultural touchstone through psychologist Jordan Peterson, who advocates it as a starting point for personal responsibility—the idea being that you should put your immediate surroundings in order before attempting to fix larger problems in the world.

Related

vacuum · mess · chores · laundry · bedmaking · shelves · clutter · neat · spotless · scrub · fold · put away · sort · pile · junk · junk drawer · under the bed · belongings

Categories
Opposites
action vs. inaction regarding mess

clean your roomdo nothing

Remain inactive deliberately

procrastinate · put it off · let it go

creating order vs. creating disorder

clean your roommake a mess

compliance vs. defiance (in domestic context)

clean your roomdisobey

Refuse to comply

rebel · slack off · storm off

Family

clean, room, cleans, cleaned, cleaning, cleaner, cleaners, cleanliness, cleanly

Familiarity
Top 50,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G