get right with (someone)

get right with (someone)

To redress or atone for one's wrongdoings or transgressions against someone. I mistreated a lot of people at the height of my addiction, and I've been trying to get right with them ever since I got clean. You need to get right with God if you want to have any hope of getting into heaven.
See also: get, right
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • cover for
  • cover for (someone or something)
  • make a clean breast
  • make a clean breast of
  • make a clean breast of (something)
  • make a clean breast of it
  • make a clean breast of something
  • bring (one) to book
  • bring somebody to book
  • bring someone to book