(also make it good) to become successful and rich after being poor – used especially in newspapers 获得成功;发迹〔尤用于报纸报道〕
a country boy who made good in New York
在纽约发迹的一个乡下男孩
Examples from the Corpus
make good• Hsieh came to America as a poor teenager, but worked hard and made good.• Ian thinks that just because he made good, everybody else can too.• He's just a poor country boy who made good in the city.• However, although he might look a bit lost, he makes good in Year 2.• The next afternoon, Sunday, Jody makes good on her promise.• I needed to make betterpitches with runners on base...• Dawnmade goodprogress, and was soon able to stand up.• It therefore makes good sense for us to control for date of birth when looking at the effects of terminaleducation age.• I started making goodswings, and I became entranced by what I was doing.• More separateprovision is being provided and many authoritiesmake good use of the facilities made available by voluntaryorganizations.