patch up

Verb

1. To repair by adding a patch.
   • I needed to patch up my trousers after ripping them on the brambles.
2. To mend quickly.
3. To repair relations; to improve relations.
   • You need to patch things up with your sister after that horrible argument.
   • But capital was proving difficult to raise; rumours were in the air that the G.W.R. and L.S.W.R. were about to patch up their quarrel, and the people of Southampton, who twelve months earlier had staged a torch-light...
   • 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....
4. To overlay.