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to kiss and make up

to kiss and make up

12 3.4
To become friendly again after an argument
  • idiom
  • Informal
translation icon : hacer las paces
  • After their argument, they decided to kiss and make up and move forward as friends.
  • let's kiss and make up
  • two kiss and make up
  • then kiss and make up

And that is there's a lot of incentive to kiss and make up with China and partner around this stuff.

Examples

Synonyms

to make up
vsto kiss and make up
77 2.7

Become friends again after a fight

is the same meaning but is a shorter informal expression
to reconcile
vsto kiss and make up
38 5.1

To become friendly again after a disagreement

focuses on becoming personally friendly again rather than formal agreement
to patch up
vsto kiss and make up
25 3.5

Make a relationship better after an argument or disagreement

means fully return to friendliness rather than partly repair ties
to bury the hatchet
vsto kiss and make up
  • Informal
12 3.7

Make peace with someone after an argument

means restoring friendliness without the ritual of formal peace ending
to put our differences behind us
vsto kiss and make up
  • Informal
1 5.1

Stop arguing and agree to work together

focuses on restoring friendly relations rather than only moving on

Antonyms

to fight
∞ 1.0

To take part in a physical or verbal struggle against someone

quarrel
61 2.0

An angry argument between people who are usually friendly

How Reconciled

to bury the hatchet
  • Informal
12 3.7
to reconcile
38 5.1
to kiss and make up
  • Informal
12 3.4
to patch up
25 3.5

Surface Forms

kiss and make up infinitive
kissed and made up past
kissed and made up past participle
kissing and making up present participle
kisses and makes up third person singular

Morphology

kiss + and + make + up

The component 'kiss' is literal, and the overall idea of using a kiss to restore friendliness is fairly logical; however the meaning crucially depends on the phrasal verb 'make up' (to reconcile), which is not fully predictable from knowing 'make' + 'up' at B1 level. Because part of the meaning is compositional but the phrasal-verb sense must be known or inferred, this item is only partially transparent to learners.

Etymology

Kiss and make up comes from the clear image of two people who have argued but then kiss to show they are sorry and make up by fixing their friendship. That's why it means 'to become friendly again after a disagreement'.