Make out or make up? You use ‘make out’ to mean that you just manage to understand, hear or see something: ‘I could only make out about half of what he was saying.’ And you use ‘make out’ to mean ‘pretend’: ‘Little kids like to make out they’re lions.’ But to invent something that isn’t true is to ‘make it up’: ‘She makes up stories about people.’ If you ‘make up’ your mind you decide what to do: ‘You have to make up your mind now.’ And if you become friends again after a fight, you’ve made up: ‘We kissed and made up.’
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 04:00:01 +0000
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