make nice

To be friendly or conciliatory towards another, often in the context of maintaining good relations or resolving a conflict with the other person.

Verb

  1. To be friendly or conciliatory towards another, often in the context of maintaining good relations or resolving a conflict with the other person.
    • And now he had to go make nice with the good doctor's grandma. - 1999, Gina Wilkins, Doctor in Disguise, page 18:
    • [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. - 2002, Dee Davis, Dark of the Night, page 31:
    • “A jackass? I'm trying to make nice.” “I don't need your nice. Go make nice with Angela.” - 2010, Catherine Wade, Let's Dish, page 76:

Forms

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