make allowance
To judge results by the circumstances. Often used in plural.
When a small boy is helping you, you must make allowances for his age.
make an end of
To make (something) end; put a stop to; stop.
To make an end of rumors that the house was haunted, a reporter spent the night there.
make an example of
To punish (someone) publicly to show what happens when someone does wrong.
The teacher made an example of the boy who copied from another student during a test.
The Pilgrims made an example of a thief by putting him in the stocks.
make an exhibition of oneself
To behave foolishly or embarrassingly in public.
Stop drinking so much and making an exhibition of yourself.
make away with
Take; carry away; cause to disappear.
The lumberjack made away with a great stack of pancakes.
Two masked men held up the clerk and made away with the payroll.
make believe
To act as if something is true while one knows it is not; pretend.
Let's make believe we have a million dollars.
Danny made believe he didn't hear his mother calling.
make book
To serve as a bookmaker taking bets on the horse races.
The police were out to prosecute anybody who made book illegally.
make bricks without straw
To make something without the wherewithal; do something the hard way; do a job under hard conditions.
John could not go to a library, and writing the report was a job of making bricks without straw.
It was making bricks without straw to put on plays in that old barn.