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Definition of Make it

1. Verb. Continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.). "The business is going to make it "; "He survived the cancer against all odds"

2. Verb. Succeed in a big way; get to the top. "You will go far, my boy!"

3. Verb. Go successfully through a test or a selection process. "She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now"

Definition of Make it

1. Verb. (&lit make it) ¹

2. Verb. (idiomatic) to reach a place. ¹

3. Verb. (idiomatic) to survive, to live through something ¹

4. Verb. (idiomatic) to become famous and successful ¹

5. Verb. (idiomatic) to have sexual intercourse ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Make It

make fun make fun of make game of make good make good on make ground make grow make happy make haste make hay

make hay while the sun shines make head or tail of make headway make history make into make it do or do without make it snappy make it up as one goes along make it up to make known

make light of make like make like a banana and split make like a tree and leave make love, not war make matters worse make merry make mincemeat out of

Literary usage of Make it

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Utopia by Thomas More (1869)
"... I can not tell, it lyeth not in me to make it fruitfull. And God worke Preachers not ^ your ... make it ..."

2. The Holy Bible by Canadian Bible Society (1851)
"8 Hollow with boards shall thou make it : as it was shewed thee in the ... make it. 9 IT And Ihou shall make Ihe court of Ihe ..."

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