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put the make on



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Idioms and Phrases

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.”

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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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