- make do with
- (smth) - substitute one thing for another
If there is no cream for the coffee, we'll have to make do with milk.
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make do with
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make away with — ► make away with 1) another way of saying make off with. 2) kill furtively and illicitly. Main Entry: ↑make … English terms dictionary
make off with — ► make off with carry away illicitly. Main Entry: ↑make … English terms dictionary
make free with — (something) to use something a lot, even when it does not belong to you. I won t have him in my house, making free with my whiskey … New idioms dictionary
make acquainted with — index forewarn, notice (give formal warning) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
make away with — index dispatch (put to death), distrain Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
make free with — index assume (seize) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
make off with — index carry away, despoil, hijack, hold up (rob), loot, pilfer, poach Burton s Legal Thesaurus … Law dictionary
make up with — make peace with, forgive and forget … English contemporary dictionary
make free with — ► make free with treat without ceremony or proper respect. Main Entry: ↑free … English terms dictionary
make away with — 1 she decided to make away with him: KILL, murder, dispatch, eliminate; informal bump off, do away with, do in, do for, knock off, top, croak, stiff, blow away; N. Amer. informal ice, rub out, smoke, waste; poetic/lite … Useful english dictionary
make off with — TAKE, steal, purloin, pilfer, abscond with, run away/off with, carry off, snatch; kidnap, abduct; informal walk away/off with, swipe, filch, snaffle, nab, lift, ‘liberate’, ‘borrow’, snitch; Brit. informal pinch, half inch, nick, whip, knock off; … Useful english dictionary
