Blow up
Blow up verb - To become very angry.
Make up
Make up verb - To form by putting together parts or materials.
Usage example: we'll have to make up the bookcase, which came in a box marked “some assembly required”
Both terms in one sentence
- And Vash spends the next several decades feeling he has to make amends for that, somehow, until Knives uses him to blow up a fucking city, and then he feels the need to make up for that.
Source: Must Make Amends - Sure, the Balance is restored, the Kingpriest gets his comeuppance, and the Peripas Mishakas, the setting's Bible is saved, but somehow this doesn't make up for the gods having to blow up half a continent to do it.
Source: Bittersweet Ending / Literature
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