make good

Definition

To achieve substantial success in life, often in business.

Example Sentences

• "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?"