remember oneself

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   recover one's good manners after a lapse or stop behaving badly

   “Please remember yourself, Charles!”

   Broaderbehave

Questions about remember oneself

What does remember oneself mean?

remember oneself means "recover one's good manners after a lapse or stop behaving badly".

Is remember oneself a common word?

remember oneself is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.