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put the make on
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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.”Advertisement
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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