make nice

make nice

English

Verb

make nice (third-person singular simple present makes nice, present participle making nice, simple past and past participle made nice)

1. (US) To be friendly or conciliatory towards another, often in the context of maintaining good relations or resolving a conflict with the other person.
   • 2010, Catherine Wade, Let's Dish, p. 76:

     “A jackass? I'm trying to make nice.” “I don't need your nice. Go make nice with Angela.”

   • 2002, Dee Davis, Dark of the Night, p. 31:

     [H]e either had to make nice with the guards or make nice with the prisoners. And frankly, the way the prisoners made nice scared the bejeesus out of him.

   • 1999, Gina Wilkins, Doctor in Disguise, p. 18:

     And now he had to go make nice with the good doctor's grandma.