make over | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Torenovateor toconvertto a differentuse, particularly houses, offices, or rooms within them.We're going tomake overthe garage into a guest suite.2006,Prevention, volume58, number12, page142:Ourmade-overmeat recipes call for the leanest cuts of beef, lamb, and pork[…]; (idiomatic)(of a person, particularly a woman) To give a newphysicallookto, especially with a newhairstyle,cosmetics, orclothes.Cindy is going tomake overKaren tomorrow.; (idiomatic)(of a career, public image, etc.) To improve upon or take in a new direction.The senator needs tomake overhis image.; (idiomatic)Totransferownership(orcare) of, especially by means of alegaldocument.1915,G[eorge] A. Birmingham[pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, inGossamer, New York, N.Y.:George H. Doran Company,→OCLC:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladlymakemineoverto him if I could.1962April, D. Bertram, “Trans-Pennine Diversion”, inModern Railways, page257:Limestone from the quarries at Warcop and Merrygill to Tees-side is now worked on to the former Midland Railway at Appleby and down the Eden Valley to Carlisle, where it ismade overto the N.E.R.; (slang,African-American Vernacular,dated)To praise (someone) excessively.

Examples:

EN: It's ridiculous the fuss they make over a man as soon as they find out he's rich.
ES: Es ridículo el alboroto que montan cuando se enteran que un hombre es rico.
EN: I'll make over a hundred guilders a month.
ES: Voy a ganar más de 100 florines al mes.
EN: The lady Saskia Van Uylenburgh... Left her fortune to her beloved Rembrandt Van Rijn... with the proviso that in the event of his remarriage... he must make over 1/2 of the fortune... to her son Titus.
ES: La Sra. Saskia Van Uylenburgh le dejó su fortuna a su amado Rembrandt Van Rijn con la condición de que, si se volvía a casar debía entregarle la mitad del legado a su hijo, Titus.
EN: And then, of course, you might make over to me Michael's castles and estates.
ES: Y luego, claro, por concederme los castillos y bienes de Michael.
EN: There's no mistake. That old car of ours can't make over 35 miles an hour.
ES: Nuestro viejo auto no llega a los 55 km por hora.
EN: Would you care to make over your life insurance to me?
ES: ¿Le importaría cederme su seguro de vida?
EN: Is that the dress you want to make over?
ES: ¿Éste es el vestido que quiere arreglar?
EN: - It's not natural, the fuss you make over it.
ES: - Ese cariño no es natural.
EN: It's a heck of a fuss to make over a Dutch daffodil.
ES: Demasiado alboroto por algo insignificante.
ES: Demasiado alboroto por algo insignificante.
EN: I used to make over $400 a month in the Air Force.
ES: Ganaba más de $400 por mes en la fuerza aérea.
EN: You can't make over the whole world. You know I'm on Dave's side.
ES: Estoy del lado de Dave.
EN: She even started to make over me.
ES: Incluso entabló trato conmigo.
EN: With a good booking you'll make over a hundred a week or more.
ES: Si resulta, podría ganar 100 libras a la semana; quizás más.
EN: Maybe he can make over an old leg.
ES: Quizá pueda reparar una pierna vieja.
EN: Can't the bank make over to me this deficit as a personal loan?
ES: - No puede evitarse. ¿El banco no puede darme esa suma como un préstamo personal?

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