"make out" has an awful lot of meanings for two words that seemingly don't make any sense together

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• TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Some of those feel made up.

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  • Test_Tickles@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They all seemed legit to me.

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• cloudless@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • ray@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s definitely not as straightforward as it’s made out to be

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• charonn0@startrek.website ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Make out” makes out so many things.

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• fubo@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I saw a bumper sticker yesterday that was a PG-rated version of an old slogan: MAKE OUT, NOT WAR

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• Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I made out like a bandit!

  …stupid sexy bandit

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• teft@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Phrasal verbs are weird. Get up has even more definitions:

  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/get_up

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  • AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    May I draw your attention to the humble single word “set” which has 48 definitions?

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Try “run”. :)

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