英和和英

動詞

make nice (三人称単数 現在形 makes nice, 現在分詞 making nice, 過去形および過去分詞形 made nice)

1. (US) To be friendly or conciliatory towards another, often in the context of maintaining good relations or resolving a conflict with the other person.
   • 1999, Gina Wilkins, Doctor in Disguise, page 18:

     And now he had to go make nice with the good doctor's grandma.

   • 2002, Dee Davis, Dark of the Night, page 31:

     [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.

   • 2010, Catherine Wade, Let's Dish, page 76:

     “A jackass? I'm trying to make nice.” “I don't need your nice. Go make nice with Angela.”