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单词 make it up
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to make it up
b. Chiefly British regional, esp. Scottish. to make it up (also occasionally intransitive in to make up): to make up one's mind, to resolve, contrive, agree to do something, that. Also without construction: to agree to marry.
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1814 C. I. Johnstone Saxon & Gaël I. 79 For as gude and bonny as she is, if Maister Angis and her mak it up, I'se ne'er be the man to differ them, she is a' I hae, an she'll get a' I hae.
1820 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. June 533/2 Two young men, more resolute than their neighbours, ‘made it up’ to go and look in at the old woman's window.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. x. 166 He and Miss Georgiana made it up to run away: but they were found out and stopped.
1869 A. Macdonald Love, Law & Theol. xvii. 333 That couple ower there..a doot they're makin 't up.
1900 Shetland News 13 Oct. 8/6 I heard dem makin' up at dey wir a' to vot fir Wason.
1956 in F. G. Cassidy & R. B. Le Page Dict. Jamaican Eng. 288/2 /wi mék op fi gó éniwie/ We are decided to go anyway.
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to make it up
b. to make it up: to be reconciled after a dispute; to become friends again. Frequently with with. Also intransitive in same sense, as make up (with).
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society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > become at peace with each other [verb (intransitive)]
saughtel1154
saughtenc1275
peasec1300
saughta1400
reconcilec1425
agree1447
to make peace1535
to fall in1546
to piece up1653
to kiss and be friends1657
to kiss and make up1657
to make it up1669
to make it up1722
conciliate1747
1669 R. Montagu in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 441 You had made up with the Duke of York without his knowledge.
1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 307 They were in a great Fright, and were desirous above all things to make it up.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. v. 26 If I should be obliged to make up with him again, I shall think I am always doing myself a spight.
1782 S. Crisp Let. 5 Apr. in F. Burney Diary & Lett. (1842) II. 135 And now, Fanny, after this severe lecturing, I shall give you a sweetener to make it up with you.
1837 W. M. Thackeray Yellowplush Corr. i There we were, quarrelling and making up..by turns.
1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It liii. 386 The next time Robbins got sick, Jacops tried to make up with him.
1887 C. L. Pirkis Dateless Bargain II. xviii. 232 We've kissed and made it up again.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xix. 288 We..had quarrelled and made up.
1915 V. Woolf Diary 31 Jan. (1977) I. 31 I explode: and L. smoulders. However, quite suddenly we made it up.
1956 B. Webb Diary 12 Feb. (1956) II. 55 MacDonald shows no signs of making it up with the Left.
1983 J. Lingard Winter Visitor i. 9 He and his mother had been clashing a lot, quarrelling, making-up, then arguing again.
1991 Economist (BNC) 30 Mar. 14 The smaller Gulf states had already decided that..they should sensibly make up with their ex-enemy Iran.
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