mend (=patch up) clothes
Can you patch up this electric iron?
We decided to patch up our differences and become friends again.
In the evening mother Shared the light with me to patch up sole when I did my homework.
But if such efforts are delayed, the government will have to adopt other devices to patch up the public finances.
Take up the pen and paper, but I don't know what to write, but the fragmented bits can't patch up my complete pattern.
Several times she came so late as scarcely to have an hour in which to patch up a meal and start for the theatre.
Sometimes I want to give up, but I can't bear it, because after all, I leave traces in my heart. This mark is not very easy to patch up.
That means if one falls to pieces, those pieces could be used to patch up the other - or, in the case of an ironing board cover, make the other, in the form of a lovely new pair of mitts.
