make it up to sb
to do something good for someone you have upset, in order to become friends with them again:
I'm sorry we can't take you with us, but I promise I'll make it up to you somehow.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making & accepting apologies
- absolution
- afraid
- atonement
- conciliate
- cut
- excusable
- excuse
- excuse/pardon my French! idiom
- forge
- forgiving
- mend
- mend your fences idiom
- overlook
- pardon (me) idiom
- recompense
- reconcile
- repentant
- sink
- take sb back
- unrepentant
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