patch up

Verb

patch up (third-person singular simple present patches up, present participle patching up, simple past and past participle patched up)

1. (idiomatic) To repair by adding a patch.
   • I needed to patch up my trousers after ripping them on the brambles.
2. (idiomatic, transitive) To mend quickly.
3. (figuratively, idiomatic) To repair relations; to improve relations.
   • You need to patch things up with your sister after that horrible argument.
   • But capital was proving difficult to raise; rumours were in the air that the G.W.R. and L.S.W.R. were about to patch up their quarrel, and the people of Southampton, who twelve months earlier had staged a torch-light procession to celebrate the passing of the D.N.S.R. Act, were increasingly loath...1955 February, T. B. Sands, “The Didcot, Newbury & Southampton Railway—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 79
4. (obsolete) To overlay.