on the mend

1. 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

Emmy-nominated “Ray Donovan” star Liev Schreiber is on the mend, after a health scare landed him in a New York City hospital over the weekend.

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Just when relations seemed on the mend, Xi dropped a bombshell: He directed his government to hit back at a recent U.S. export-control action—and do so with unprecedented force, according to the people close to Beijing.

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Now, relations appear to be on the mend.

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Hamstring on the mend, Knight and her guitar have made it to the World Cup.

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This isn’t the first time Muniz has found himself on the mend.

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