make bold

Idioms and Phrases

Also, make so bold as . Dare, presume, take the liberty of doing something, as in Let me make bold and ask you to back me as a member , or I will not make so bold as to criticize a respected scholar . This expression was frequently used by Shakespeare but is heard less often today. [Late 1500s]

Example Sentences

He launched Brave New Films in 2006 to make bold documentaries by accepting donations for funding and taking no compensation.

From The Daily Beast

Like Bush in 2000, Obama sees his election as a chance to make bold changes to government.

From The Daily Beast

May her dear shade pardon this belated blossom, which I make bold to lay upon her grave!

From Project Gutenberg

I make bold to state that no man of all the men who walk the earth with me ever suffer fear of like kind and degree.

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“Yes; and I shall make bold to bring in a shrimp to tea,” said Henderson, seizing hold of Eden.

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To you I will make bold to state so much positively, though it would be foolish, perhaps, to do so to others.

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I once more must make bold, sir, To trench upon your patience.

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