Tuesday, 10 March 2015

Idioms with the word "Make"?





Make up one's mind (determined): She has made up her mind to make her life happy.

Make up one's deficiency (remove one's shortcomings or weakness): Have you made up your deficiency in German?

Make after (run after): The police officer made after the thief and soon overtook him.

Make away with (get rid of, kill): The soldier was made away with secretly.

Make away with (steal): He made away with twenty thousand rupees.

Make for (lead to): Contentment makes for happiness.

Make straight (go directly towards): Hearing the report, we made straight for the scene of occurrence.

Make over (hand over): Make over the luggage to the porter.

Make out (discover, understand): I can't make out what this letter means.

Make off (carry away): The tiger pounced and seized the lamb and made off with it into the thicket.

Make up (end the misunderstanding and come together again): The four friends have made up their differences by now.


Make it up (reconcile): The two brothers shook hands and made it up.

Can you come up with some more!!

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