make good on
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make good on (third-person singular simple present makes good on, present participle making good on, simple past and past participle made good on)
- (transitive, idiomatic) To fulfill or honor (a promise, prediction, etc).
- 2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 7 November 2025:
- By now South Koreans understand Pyongyang’s logic and know North Korea is highly unlikely to make good on its gothic threats.
- 2012 May 19, Paul Fletcher, “Blackpool 1-2 West Ham”, in BBC Sport[2], archived from the original on 13 January 2016:
- The result ensured that manager Sam Allardyce made good on his promise to take the Hammers back into the top flight after his team narrowly missed out on automatic promotion at the end of the regular season.
- 2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian[3], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 October 2026:
- He made good on his promise to promote more women to leading roles in the Vatican, but still they remain shut out of priesthood.
- 2026 March 31, Lisa Respers France, “Celine Dion announces her return to the stage”, in CNN[4], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 6 May 2026:
- Making good on rampant speculation, Dion is set to perform 10 concerts in Paris […]