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make right

SOP? This is covered in the definition of right. It can also be included in the appendix Collocations of do, have, make, and take. Algrif 18:02, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Delete per nomination, and include, also per nomination, in DoHaveMakeTake or whatever it's called.—msh210℠ 18:10, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Well, this has a very restricted meaning (relative to all of the plausible sense combinations). I mean, it doesn't mean "make correct," or even "make proper"; in fact I wouldn't have said that "right" normally has the sense "rectified/ameliorated/atoned-for" at all. So I'm not convinced this is a strict sum of parts. -- Visviva 13:19, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Agreed, keep. DAVilla 13:30, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

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Looks SOP. In the usexes given, it seems to be substitutable by "rectify/aright". —Svārtava ^{[t•c•u•r]} 06:29, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Are you disagreeing with its use in English? :-P To me your argument actually solidifies it as a single concept. Keep set phrase. DAVilla 22:58, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

I agree with the previous discussion on the talk page, this sense of "right" only goes with phrases like "make it right" or "make things right". General Vicinity (talk) 08:56, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

@Algrif, Msh210, DAVilla, Visviva General Vicinity (talk) 08:59, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

I don't see why this sense of "right" should be limited to use with "make". What about e.g. "things are right between us now", "everything came right in the end", "something about that relationship wasn't right", "the atmosphere in that office doesn't seem right", etc. Isn't that the same sense of "right"? Mihia (talk) 21:01, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Hmm just the first one "things are right between us now" IMO, but still a good point. General Vicinity (talk) 19:20, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

• I disagree with the need for an infixed object of the phrase. See, e.g.:

  1897, William Thomas Stead, The History of the Mystery: A Sequel to Blastus: the King's Chamberlain, p. 133: "Nothing could make right what Zahlbar has done."

  2004, Michael Phillips, Together is All We Need (Shenandoah Sisters Book #4), p. 61: "But don't you think you ought to give him the chance to make right what he can?"

  2007, Raven Lilijana, Water Jars of Heaven, p. 111: "This could be your last chance to confess and make right your soul.

  2012, Stasia Minkowsky, Skinny White Woman, p. 243: "Standing before the judge, I was being given an opportunity to make right all the things that I wasn't able to make right from so many years ago."

  2016, Brett Campbell, Right Now!: Why Not You . . . and Why Not Now?, p. 32: "I committed to do whatever it took to make right what my father could—or would—not do."

• bd2412 T 08:27, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

Delete. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 18:47, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

THUB. Look at those nice translations. — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 02:32, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Keep or THUB per Fytcha & DAVilla. AG202 (talk) 06:30, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Keep. ·~ dictátor·mundꟾ 20:05, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

• RFD-kept. ·~ dictátor·mundꟾ 21:00, 16 April 2022 (UTC)