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Salam 1101 Posted 21 years ago
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make nice

Hi, could you please tell me what 'make nice' means?

I'm going to invite my father for brunch and you can make nice. (Rachel said to Ross in Friends)
  

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Hi, could you please tell me what 'make nice' means? I'm going to invite my father for brunch and you can make nice. (Rachel said to Ross in Friends) It's slang expression, meaning 'be nice, act nice'.

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  • Hi, could you please tell me what 'make nice' means?
  • I'm going to invite my father for brunch and you can make nice.
  • (Rachel said to Ross in Friends) It's slang expression, meaning 'be nice, act nice'.
  • It has the suggestion that you are just pretending to be nice.
  • This is 'cute talk', 'baby talk', where adults try to speak in the way that they think a child would, in order to make their words seem slightly amusing.
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Hi,

could you please tell me what 'make nice' means?

I'm going to invite my father for brunch and you can make nice. (Rachel said to Ross in Friends)

It's slang expression, meaning 'be nice, act nice'. It has the suggestion that you are just pretending to be nice.

This is 'cute talk', 'baby talk', where
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