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Idioms and Phrases

Be the means or cause of progress or success, as in Marriage will be the making of him . This idiom, using making in the sense of “advancement,” was first recorded about 1470.

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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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