Se Mettre - Expressions
The verb se mettre literally means to put oneself. However, it is also used in a number of idiomatic expressions which must be memorized.
| ne pas savoir où se mettre | to not know what to do with oneself | |
| se mettre au français, à la guitare | to start learning French, to play the guitar | |
| se mettre à + infinitive | to start doing something | |
| se mettre à poil | (informal) | to strip of |
| se mettre à qqun | to team up with someone | |
| se mettre au régime | to go on a diet | |
| se mettre à table | to sit down to eat, to come clean | |
| se mettre autour de | to gather round | |
| se mettre au travail | to start working | |
| se mettre au vert | to lie low | |
| se mettre dans une situation délicate | to get oneself into an awkward situation | |
| se mettre sur un rang | to form a line/queue | |
| se mettre une idée dans la tête | to get an idea into one's head | |
| s'en mettre partout | to get covered in it, to get s.t. all over oneself | |
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