"put a patch on" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to fix or mend something, often with a physical patch or by making improvements. Example: "The seam on my shirt is torn, I need to put a patch on it before I can wear it again."
Ellis also put a patch on the injured area of the foot.
"It looks like somebody put a patch on a pair of Levi's," Linson says, and, though Mamet will accept notes and supply rewrites, "there'll come a time where the gate comes down and it's 'No más.' " Mamet's talent and his inflexibility have given him something of a bad-boy reputation in Hollywood, whose folly he memorialized in "Speed-the-Plow".
Instead of having prick their finger continuously, customers can now put a patch on, which delivers readings whenever they want.
Lieberman generously suggested the president is "not going to do it every day" (phew), but he did argue "we need the capacity for the president to say, Internet service provider, we've got to disconnect the American Internet from all traffic coming in from another foreign country, or we've got to put a patch on this part of it".
"Many Democrats want to put a patch on the problem," he writes.
Cheeks blushing, eyes damp with tears, he waited until the ovation died down, then said: "If I'd known what I know now, I'd have put a patch on my eye (as Rooster Cogburn) 35 years ago".
The granddaddy of green Facebook apps, Lil Green Patchh puts a patch of grass on your profile that you can fill with cute* stuff.
The latest company to sponsor an NBA team by putting a patch on a jersey is…Bumble, the female-led dating and networking app.
I didn't mind when, on Animal Planet's "Emergency Vets," the kindly doctor put a fiberglass patch on a hole in the shell of a little boy's box turtle.
"For trees we collect cones from, we will be putting a pheromone patch on, so we can keep mountain pine beetles from attacking it," Ms. Baker said.
"With a four-year term, legislators are free to implement policies that will benefit communities, rather than just putting a temporary patch on the problem," he said.
