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51make up for — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms make up for : present tense I/you/we/they make up for he/she/it makes up for present participle making up for past tense made up for past participle made up for 1) make up for something to take the place of… …
52make\ do — v. phr. To use a poor substitute when one does not have the right thing. John did not have a hammer, and he had to make do with a heavy rock. This motel isn t what we wanted, but we must make do. Many families manage to make do on very little… …
53make\ do\ with — v. phr. To use a poor substitute when one does not have the right thing. John did not have a hammer, and he had to make do with a heavy rock. This motel isn t what we wanted, but we must make do. Many families manage to make do on very little… …
54Make a mountain out of a molehill — Making a mountain out of a molehill is an idiom referring to over reactive, histrionic behaviour where a person makes too much of a minor issue. Metaphor The idiom is a metaphor for the common behaviour of responding disproportionately to… …
55make a decent woman of — to marry a woman you have impregnated A less common version of make an honest woman of: You ought to hear Hope when she gets scared he ll never come back and make a decent woman of her. (Stegner, 1940 the putative father was in the… …
56ˌmake ˈup for sth — phrasal verb 1) to take the place of something that has been lost or damaged Nothing can make up for the loss of a child.[/ex] 2) to provide something good, so that something bad seems less important He bought her some flowers to make up for… …
57make few laws — A maxim of questionable propriety which is extended with less propriety:–make few laws, make them easy to obey and hard to break, and hang the man who breaks one …
58make oneself scarce — tv. to leave; to be in a place less frequently. □ Here come the boys in blue. I’d better make myself scarce. □ I suggest that you make yourself scarce before she returns …
59make light of — If you make light of something, you behave as though it is less serious than it really is. He won several awards for his work but he made light of it when the subject was mentioned …
60make babies together — to copulate with each other Usually within marriage and not anticipating a multiple birth or using IVF. To make a child, which is marginally less cloying and not euphemistic, means to become a parent: Aren t you ever sad... that we… …
