MAKE

MAKE

1. AFTER

   • STH/SB
     • Hencke made after the man, but all he could see was his back in the distance.

2. AWAY WITH STH

   • Thieves made away with thousands of dollars worth ofjewellery.

3. FOR STH

   • O1) At last the film finished and we got up and made fOr the exit. 2)With restaurants open late into the night, it all makes for a festive atmosphere.

4. A BED INTO SHELF

   • The assistant showed us how an ordinary-looking sofa could be made into two beds .

5. WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF SB/STH

6. OFF

   • to leave quickly, especially in order to escape: Detectives believe that the gunmen made off in the direction of Barnwell Park.

7. OFF WITH

   • To steal something and escape with it: Biggs and sixteen others made offwith £2.5 million in the Great Train Robbery of 1965. * SIMILAR TO: make away with

8. OUT STH/STH OUT

   • if you can make something out, you can seeor hear it, but with difficulty: In the semidarkness, Delaney could just make out the Russian sface.
   • NOT BE ABLE TO MAKE STH OUT
     • (=not be able to see or hear something clearly) The words were in small print and I couldn't quite make them out.
   • FROM WHAT SB CAN MAKE OUT
     • (=according to what someone understands about a situation, although it may not be correct) From what I can make out, the girl ran straight into the road, without stopping to look. * SIMILAR TO: work out especially SrE, figure out

9. STH/SB OUT TO BE STH

   • He was a good man, but the pressmade him out to be weak and unimportant.

10. OUT THAT

    • especially BrE to try to make people believe that something is true when it is not: Don't you make out I'm a liar,
    • CAN'T MAKE HIM OUT
    • HOW DID YOU MAKE OUT?

11. OUT WITH

    • FUCK

12. OVER

    •  BrE to officially give money or property to someone else, so that it legally belongs to them When Rose reached sixty, she made over the farm to her son.

13. TOWARDS

    • especially BrE to start moving towards something: Without a word, Bert gently picked up the frightened child and made towards the house.

14. UP STH

    • BE MADE UP
    • MAKE-UP OF THE TEAM
    • MAKE UP MY MIND
    • SB'S MIND IS MADE UP
    • UP STH
      • MAKE IT UP AS YOU GO ALONG
      • MAKE ( THE TIME) UP LATER
        • MAKE-UP TEST

15. MAKE UP WITH A PERSON /MAKE IT UP

    • TO KISS AND MAKE UP WITH

16. MAKE UP STH

    • MAKE UP THE DIFFERENCE

17. UP SB/SB UP

    • PUT MAKE-UP ON YOUR FACE

18. UP FOR STH

    • COMPENSATE FOR
    • MORE THAN MAKE UP FOR STH

19. MAKE UP FOR

    • MAKE UP FOR LOST TIME

20. MAKE UP TO

    • I'LL MAKE IT UP TO YOU