espy/iʹspie/ verb trans (espies, espied, espying)

• make a mess of
• make a mockery of something
• make a monkey of/make a monkey of
• make a mountain out of a molehill
• make a move on
• make a name for oneself
• make an exhibition of oneself
• make an honest woman of
• make a noise
• make a nonsense of
• make a pig's ear of something
• make a pitch for
• make a play for
• make a point of
• make a spectacle of oneself
• make a splash
• make a virtue of necessity
• make away/off with
• make believe
• make-believe
• make (both) ends meet
• make capital out of
• make common cause with
• make do
• make eyes at