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Get my ducks in a row 

Complete one's preparations, become efficient and well organised. This synonym for get one's act together probably alludes to lining up target ducks in a shooting gallery. Slang; 1970s
I'm trying to get my ducks in a row before I go to Munich.

get your ducks in a row 

If you don't get your ducks in a row, you won't get the project done.
get your ducks in a row by Expali November 19, 2016

Get all your ducks in a row

IT's a term used to tell someone to get everything lined up first so its simpler to do know mate what the task.
Tim - its never gana werk ! Henry - why not ? Tim - because you didnt get all your ducks in a row.

Get my ducks in a row 

Complete one's preparations, become efficient and well organised. This synonym for get one's act together probably alludes to lining up target ducks in a shooting gallery. Slang; 1970s
I'm trying to get my ducks in a row before I go to Munich.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
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