(transitive with à) to set someone straight, to provide someone with an attitude adjustment, to sort someone's ideas out for them, to talk sense into someone, to get someone back on the right track / (reflexive) to get one's head straight, to clear one's head, to get one's thoughts in order

these are empty promises; these are idle threats

(idiomatic, intransitive) to jaywalk

(informal) to wear rose-colored glasses

Alternative form of s'en prendre plein la figure

(informal) to never listen to anyone else, to be pig-headed, to do as one pleases

to make it one's duty to do something, to make a point of doing something, to commit to do something, to set out to do something

Alternative form of en un tournemain

(informal) Said of something that is seemingly endless, never-ending or inexhaustible.

practice makes perfect