Timeline for Is there any difference between "straighten out" and "sort out"?
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| Dec 15, 2020 at 0:02 | comment | added | Daniel | The former would imply a simple (though not necessarily easy) solution where the underlying implication is that something is bent out of shape(ie somehow deviating from how it's supposed to be). The latter though hints at having to figure out some form of confusion, the extent of which should be made clear by the context | |
| Dec 15, 2020 at 0:00 | comment | added | Daniel | I actually gravitate towards your understanding here. Thinking about this again today, I think the key lies in the meaning of the base words here: straighten and sort. You straighten something that's not straight and sort something that's unsorted, out if order, somehow mixed up. | |
| Nov 13, 2017 at 7:01 | history | answered | DarkMatter | CC BY-SA 3.0 |