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Make it   /meɪk ɪt/   Listen
Make it

verb
1.
Continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.).  Synonyms: come through, pull round, pull through, survive.  Antonym: succumb.
2.
Succeed in a big way; get to the top.  Synonyms: arrive, get in, go far.  "I don't know whether I can make it in science!" , "You will go far, my boy!"
3.
Go successfully through a test or a selection process.  Synonym: pass.  Antonym: fail.






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"Make it" Quotes from Famous Books



... and pitifulness in it. It was a sort of due-bill, promising to pay a small sum for beer, which had been supplied to his Majesty, so soon as God should enable him, or the distracted circumstances of his kingdom make it possible,—or some touching and helpless expression of that kind. Prince Hal seemed to consider it an unworthy matter, that a great prince should think of "that poor creature, small beer," at all; but that a great prince should not be able to pay ...
— Passages From the English Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... a while ago," spoke the investigator, "that you were interested in doing what you could to help this young man. I make it a point never to judge the merits of a case until I have examined it at close range. However, I will say this: From a distance, this matter begins to show promise; so much, indeed, that I feel I ...
— Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist • John T. McIntyre

... Simpson, dear Mr. Simpson, it's such a mortifying subject I can't bear to say anything about it, but please give us back our flag! Don't, DON'T take it over to Acreville, Mr. Simpson! We've worked so long to make it, and it was so hard getting the money for the bunting! Wait a minute, please; don't be angry, and don't say no just yet, till I explain more. It'll be so dreadful for everybody to get there tomorrow morning and find no flag to raise, and the band and the mayor all ...
— New Chronicles of Rebecca • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... These letters make it possible to understand how buildings in those days took such a long time to finish, and how Joao de Castilho—though it was at least begun in 1545—was able to do so little to the Claustro dos Filippes in the following ...
— Portuguese Architecture • Walter Crum Watson

... appeared to contain nothing but the leavings of his companions—a savory intermixture of cold potatoes, broken meat, (chiefly bits of fat and gristle,) a little hot water having been thrown over it to make it appear warm and fresh—(faugh!) His plate (with a small pinch of salt upon it) had not been cleaned after its recent use, but evidently only hastily smeared over with a greasy towel, as also seemed his knife and fork, which, in their disgusting ...
— Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. • Samuel Warren


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