make good
to succeed and become rich:
a working-class boy made good
When someone makes good something, they either pay for it, or make it happen:
My uncle owed thousands, but eventually he made good on all of his debts.
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Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
- accomplish
- achieve
- acquit
- actualize
- attain
- bear
- go (off) without a hitch idiom
- go places idiom
- go the whole hog idiom
- groove
- have the last laugh idiom
- kill
- pan
- rise
- sew sth up
- somewhere
- stand out
- streak ahead
- succeed
- sunset
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