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• a marriage made in heaven
• a match made in heaven
• a match made in hell
• a promise made is a promise kept
• a self-made man
• be made for
• be made of sterner stuff
• be tailor-made
• conspicuous by absence
• cut from the same cloth
• Fingers were made before forks
• Have I made myself clear?
• have it made
• have it made in the shade
• have made
• I'm not made of money!
• made for
• made for each other
• made from whole cloth
• made in China
• made in the shade
• made of money
• made of sterner stuff
• made out of whole cloth
• made to measure
• made to order
• make (one) hot under the collar
• make (one) pay through the nose
• make (one) see stars
• make (one) turn over in (one's) grave
• make (one's) beard
• make (one's) bones
• make (one's) own way
• make (oneself or something) ready (for someone or something)
• make (someone's) ears burn
• make (someone's) hackles rise
• make (someone's) jaw drop
• make (someone's) teeth itch
• make (something) up as (one) goes (along)
• make (the) baby Jesus cry
• make a bed
• make a better door than a window
• make a clean break (from/with someone or something)
• make a clean breast
• make a decision
• make a false step
• make a getaway
• make a hole in the water
• make a leg
• make a long arm for (something)
• make a mark
• make a mint
• make a pile
• make a run for (someone or something)
• make a wide stride
• make advances at (someone)
• make an end of (something)
• make an honest buck
• make as though
• make buckle and tongue meet
• make chalk of one and cheese of the other
• make fair weather
• make fast work of (someone or something)
• make fish of one and flesh of another
• make game of (someone or something)
• make ground
• make ground against (something)
• make ground on (someone or something)
• make heads roll
• make heavy going of (something)
• make horns at
• make it rain
• make like
• make like a banana and split
• make matters worse
• make news
• make plain
• make public
• make quick work of (someone or something)
• make sail
• make sport of (someone or something)
• make the best of a bad bargain
• make the cut
• make the welkin ring
• make the world go round
• marriage made in heaven
• Marriages are made in heaven
• match made in heaven
• not made of money
• out of whole cloth
• Promises are like piecrust, made to be broken
• rules are made to be broken
• self-made man
• show (someone) what (one's) made of
• show what are made of
• sure as God made little green apples
• tailor-made
• tailor-made for
• They broke the mould when they made
• to barely make it
• to barely make it on time
• who died and made you boss
• You made my day
• You've made your bed