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on the mend
Idioms and Phrases
Recovering one's health, as in I heard you had the flu, but I'm glad to see you're on the mend . This idiom uses mend in the sense of “repair.” [c. 1800]Example Sentences
His return to the lineup just days before the home opener is a positive sign that he’s on the mend.
“We’re so glad Luna is on the mend,” the office wrote in a comment.
Just as things looked to be on the mend on the field, they were put to the sword by a revitalised Paris St-Germain in their penultimate league phase game.
Veteran shortstop Miguel Rojas also spent much of the winter on the mend, after developing an infection following hernia surgery early in the offseason that delayed his recovery by a couple of weeks.
The 32-year-old actor, who played geeky Lionel Higgins in Netflix’s college-set series adaptation of Justin Simien’s 2014 film, revealed Thursday that he had been shot a few days before Christmas and has been on the mend ever since.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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