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• Make Something!! — is an international series of creative workshops for teens founded by Aaron Rose.[1] Since its inception in 2008, over 2,000 high school students have taken part in Make Something!! workshops held in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco,… …   Wikipedia

• make something of — (yourself) to achieve success. I want to make something of myself so that my family will be proud of me. She worked hard in school, hoping she could make something of her life …   New idioms dictionary

• make something of — {v. phr.} 1. To make (something) seem important. * /When girls see another girl with a boy, they often try to make something of it./ 2. To start a fight over; use as an excuse to start a quarrel. * /Bob accidentally shoved Bill in the corridor,… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• make something of — {v. phr.} 1. To make (something) seem important. * /When girls see another girl with a boy, they often try to make something of it./ 2. To start a fight over; use as an excuse to start a quarrel. * /Bob accidentally shoved Bill in the corridor,… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• make something of it — See want to make something of it …   English idioms

• make (something) worth (your) while — if you tell someone that you will make it worth their while if they do something, you mean you will pay them to do something, especially something bad or illegal. If you can get us his personal files, we ll make it worth your while …   New idioms dictionary

• make something of yourself — make something of (yourself) to achieve success. I want to make something of myself so that my family will be proud of me. She worked hard in school, hoping she could make something of her life …   New idioms dictionary

• make something stick — make (something) stick to cause something to be accepted or agreed to. Investigators didn t have the evidence to make the charges stick. Workers got a good agreement and made it stick by threatening another costly strike …   New idioms dictionary

• make something seem like a picnic — make (something) seem like a picnic if a difficult experience makes another experience seem like a picnic, it makes it seem very easy because it is much more difficult. University makes school seem like a picnic …   New idioms dictionary

• make something up out of whole cloth — make (something) up out of whole cloth American, American if a story or excuse is made up out of whole cloth, it is not true. Yet the explanation was too strange for Joan to have made up out of whole cloth …   New idioms dictionary

• make something human — put a human face on something or make something human to make something seem more real or easier to understand, because you meet or hear about people who are involved We really do have to put a human face onto these figures and these financial… …   English dictionary