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put the make on
Idioms and Phrases
Make sexual advances to, as in He's always putting the make on his wife's friends . This slangy expression, dating from the second half of the 1900s, uses make in the sense of “sexual overtures.”Example Sentences
And I really put the make on her in the audition.
And he never tried to put the make on me!
Those were Vonetta's two lessons to a young director: do not try to put the make on your leading lady, and make a nice environment for the actors to be creative in.
His girl—the one he has been trying unsuccessfully to put the make on—hears the longing and the edge of desperation in his voice and kisses him on the cheek.
Says an older member of the U.S. women's team: "The least he could have done was put the make on somebody from a different event."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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