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sort out

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1. sort out - Verb

2. sort out - Phrase

Meaning

arrange or order by classes or categories

make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear

punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience

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It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them. Edward de Bono

The true realist is he who believes in both God and the Devil, and is prepared to attempt, with humility, to sort out some corner of the extraordinary tangle of their works which is our world. He cannot use his feeling alone, he must use his intellect. Robertson Davies

You laugh at the North, you think they're all funny little short people who live in a big pie. Trying to sort out their relationship with the definite article. Throwing darts at their dinner. Dylan Moran

Give me the whole world to run and then I'll be happy. If tomorrow I was told I had to sort out the whole world's problems I'd sleep like a baby. Ken Livingstone

I still find trusting people quite hard. I've got a couple of mates that I do let in, but that's it. It's something I've got to sort out - I cut people off. Robbie Williams

When bad things happen, it's the time when you get to work in the garden and sort out the pots from the weeds. Elizabeth Hurley

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