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View synonyms for mend one's ways
mend one's ways
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Idioms and Phrases
Improve one's behavior, as in Threatened with suspension, Jerry promised to mend his ways . This expression, transferring a repair of clothes to one of character, was first recorded in 1868, but 150 or so years earlier it had appeared as mend one's manners .Discover More
Example Sentences
Better than believe in meeting the great wrath is to be advised betimes and mend ones ways.
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