whip into shape

I have some things to whip into shape for sure.

Whether you like the rebels or not – and many in France no longer do – Blanc still has a qualification campaign to whip into shape.

Horton was in Washington recently to whip into shape congressmen -- in their private gym! -- and about 140 average blokes who earned a slot at the Results gym on Capitol Hill.

It took him another two days to whip into shape a play about Chicago gangsters and the outcome is On The Spot.

He had another letter in his mind—a form letter, practically a public-relations circular—which he hoped to whip into shape before the emigrants got too anxious to be on their way.