put/set sb right
informalto stop someone believing something that is not true, or to correct someone by telling them the truth:
She thought she wouldn't have to work hard, but we soon put her right on that.
to make someone feel better:
A good night's sleep will soon put you right.
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Correcting and mending
- clean (sth) up
- correction
- fiddle (around) with sth
- fine-tune
- fix sth up
- lie
- mess
- patch
- reconstruction
- refine
- refinement
- refit
- remediate
- revised
- smooth
- sort sth/sb out
- troubleshooting
- tune
- under repair idiom
- work on sth
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