make it up with sb.

make it up with sb.

It's a Chinese idiom, pronounced y á NGU ī y ú h ǎ o, which means to make up with each other again. It comes from Zuo Zhuan, the ninth year of Duke Yu.

Idiom explanation

Words: the auxiliary word at the beginning of a sentence, meaningless; return: return; good: make up. It means to make up with each other again.

The origin of Idioms

Zuozhuan, the ninth year of the Duke of Fu, said, "all the people in our alliance will make up after the alliance."

Idioms and allusions

During the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period, the princes fought for hegemony, and the wars continued year after year. After the establishment of overlord, Duke Huan of Qi held an alliance meeting in kuiqiu in 651 BC, which was called "kuiqiu alliance" in history. The princes who participated in the meeting were Lu, Qin, Wei, Zheng, Xu and Cao. At the alliance meeting, the vassal states expressed their own opinions and finally reached a resolution after fierce arguments: first, they should not block the water source; second, they should not obstruct the circulation of grain; third, they should respect the talents, cultivate talents, select the talents, and do not inherit official positions. At the end of the alliance, Duke Huan of Qi finally demanded: "all the countries participating in the alliance, after they have concluded the alliance, must abide by it, eliminate the barriers in the past, and get along with each other again." Later, people used "make up" to express reconciling.

Idiom usage

In Guo Moruo's talk about Yu Dafu again: "although some of our old friends fell out once, they still fell out." ö. The fifth chapter of Eastern Zhou Dynasty annals by Feng Menglong in Ming Dynasty