English-French translations for pick up the pieces

• recoller les morceaux
  Quelqu’un doit venir, recoller les morceaux et faire avancer les choses. Someone needs to come and pick up the pieces and drive things forward.
  Comme l'a souligné le commissaire lui-même, investir de l'argent au préalable est bien plus efficace et plus économique que dépenser de l'argent pour essayer de recoller les morceaux par la suite. As the Commissioner himself pointed out, investing money earlier is much more effective and more economical than spending money to pick up the pieces afterwards.

Definition of pick up the pieces

• To restore one's life to a normal state, after a calamity, shock etc

Related words

• pick up the phone
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