We found 8 definitions of make it from 3 different sources.
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make it - continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); "He survived the cancer against all odds" | ||
survive, pull through, pull round, come through | ||
succumb, yield be fatally overwhelmed | ||
get the better of, defeat, overcome win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up" | ||
make it - go successfully through a test or a selection process; "She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now" | ||
pass | ||
flunk, flush it, bomb, fail get worse; "Her health is declining" | ||
deliver the goods, bring home the bacon, succeed, come through, win be the successor (of); "Carter followed Ford"; "Will Charles succeed to the throne?" | ||
breeze through, pass with flying colors, sail through, sweep through, ace, nail succeed at easily; "She sailed through her exams"; "You will pass with flying colors"; "She nailed her astrophysics course" | ||
make it - succeed in a big way; get to the top; "After he published his book, he had arrived"; "I don't know whether I can make it in science!"; "You will go far, my boy!" | ||
arrive, get in, go far | ||
deliver the goods, bring home the bacon, succeed, come through, win be the successor (of); "Carter followed Ford"; "Will Charles succeed to the throne?" |