Definition
To achieve substantial success in life, often in business.
To make (a surface) level or even.
In Context
- "Near-synonym: come good"
- "America does vaguely feel a man making good as something analogous to a man being good or a man doing good."
- "Some of the Cubans who come to this country hoping to make good may be in for a shock. Would those 1,400 Cuban exiles already locked up have left Cuba — where jobs, education and health care are available to all, and where no laws against homosexuality exist — had they known they would end up in U.S. federal prisons, isolated from other prisoners and without benefit of trial?"
- "The moment DJay becomes a rapper, the moment he becomes an artist, is linked to his own understanding of what hip hop was about when Skinny Black, his idol, a local homeboy who made good as a rapper, was “blowing up.""
- "He [Eisenhower] was their own, the boy who made good."
- "As she told Playboy in 1958, “I realized some time ago that as long as there were men in this world, I’d make good.”"
- "[…] the only action that will be required prior to decoration will be to wash down, make good and apply a fresh paint system."
Also Said As
- come good