make+difficult
31make a rod for your own back — If you make a rod for your own back, you make something difficult for yourself …
32make a virtue out of necessity — If you make a virtue out of necessity, you make the best of a difficult or unsatisfactory situation …
33make heavy weather of — To find excessive difficulty in • • • Main Entry: ↑weather * * * see weather * * * make heavy weather of Brit informal : to treat (something) in a way that makes it seem more important or difficult than it really is an actor who makes heavy… …
34make a production (out) of something — informal phrase to make something more difficult, complicated, or noticeable than is necessary Thesaurus: to make something more obvious or noticeablesynonym Main entry: production …
35make time for — make time (for) phrase to find time to do something or be with someone in spite of being busy He’s finding it difficult to make time for his children. Thesaurus: to find, or to have enough time for somethingsynonym Main entry: make …
36make a meal out of — make a meal (out) of 1 : to eat (a particular food) as your meal without anything else This bread is so good, I could make a meal of it. 2 Brit, informal : to do (something) in a way that makes it seem more important or difficult than it really… …
37make the best of something — make the best of sth/it | make the best of things | make the best of a bad job idiom to accept a bad or difficult situation and do as well as you can Main entry: ↑bestidiom …
38make the best of things — make the best of sth/it | make the best of things | make the best of a bad job idiom to accept a bad or difficult situation and do as well as you can Main entry: ↑bestidiom …
39make an example of someone — make an example of (someone) to punish someone for doing something so that other people will not do the same thing. They want to make an example of him by keeping him in prison under very difficult conditions …
40make an example of — (someone) to punish someone for doing something so that other people will not do the same thing. They want to make an example of him by keeping him in prison under very difficult conditions …
