kiss and make up
Proposed by a contributor, not yet supported by evidence.
Where it’s used:
Used
Widespread English
Examples
Comic Jim hopes to kiss and make up
‘ Come now, pet, let's kiss and make up and I'll tell you about him.
British National Corpus sentence via the MAGPIE corpus (CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)
Sources & notes
Listed on Wikipedia “Irreversible binomial” (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-29). Figurative class: Metaphor (PIE-English corpus, CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-31).
Common questions
What does “kiss and make up” mean?
Make peace.
Is “kiss and make up” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.