What does 直す mean in western Japan if not “to fix”?

In standard (Tokyo) Japanese, 直す means “to fix” or “to repair.” Across western Japan — Kansai and beyond — it also means “to put away” or “tidy up”: おもちゃを直しといて is “put the toys away,” not “repair the toys.” Nothing is broken; the sense drifted from “restore something to its proper state” toward “put something back where it belongs.”

This is why the phrase trips up Kanto speakers: told 直しといて, a Tokyoite pictures taking something apart to fix it, while a Kansai speaker just clears the table. The clip’s cleaning sequence uses it exactly this way — 汚いです。直しましょう。(“It’s messy. Let’s tidy it up.”) — right before switching to the dedicated cleaning verb 掃除する. Surveys on the word split roughly down the Kanto/Kansai line, with “tidy up” the majority reading across western Japan.