make it up

Idioms  

1. see under make up.

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Example Sentences

He adds: "I was trying to do the right thing. I didn't make it up. Something I'd never do".

From BBC

“Basically Patrick was like, he feels horrible for the trade. And wants to make it up to us,” Dickason said.

From Los Angeles Times

It was that she never questioned her right to live her life exactly as she saw fit, to make it up as she went along in the great tradition of all those dead white male artists she worshiped.

From Salon

"We have a lot of plans in New York, so it would have been a little bit of a catastrophe if we weren't able to make it up," she said.

From BBC

“The story of Garfield, you couldn’t make it up. He was a hero of working people and the promise of American democracy — having a representational democracy where those in power and the wealthy are not controlling the laws of the land, which could not be more relevant today.”

From Los Angeles Times