fairy cups
noun
1Any of various lichens or fungi bearing cup-shaped fruiting bodies, especially the fungus scarlet cup, Sarcoscypha coccinea, and several lichens of the genus Cladonia; the fruiting bodies themselves.
2The cowslip, Primula veris, or its flowers.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Alphonso Wood (1810–1881), botanist.
- make ends meet
- make every (or spare no)effort
- make eyes at someone
- makefile
- make for
- make free with
- make fun of
- make good
- make good one's escape
- make (great) play of (or with)
- make hard work of
- make haste
- make hay (while the sun shines)
- make head or tail of
- make heavy weather of
- make history
- make it a rule to do something
- make it big
- make it (or things) hot for
- make it snappy
- makeless
- make light of
- make light work of
- make like
- make little of