patch up
See also: patch-up
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patch up (third-person singular simple present patches up, present participle patching up, simple past and past participle patched up)
- (idiomatic) To repair by adding a patch.
- I needed to patch up my trousers after ripping them on the brambles.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To mend quickly.
- (idiomatic, figuratively) To repair; to make better.
- You need to patch things up with your sister after that horrible argument.
- 1983, Shen, James C. H., “Signs of Change”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally, Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., →ISBN, LCCN 82-13884, OCLC 8708915, page 51:
- Nixon was very curious about developments on the Chinese mainland. He particularly wanted to know whether the Vice-Premier saw any possibility of Peking and Moscow patching up their feud in the foreseeable future. Chiang Ching-kuo answered in the negative.
Translations
to mend quickly and roughly
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