make a day/night/evening/weekend of it
to make an activity longer or combine a series of activities so that they last for the whole of that particular period of time:
We wanted to drive up the coast, so we decided to make a weekend of it.
We don't go out often so we thought we'd make a day of it.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Celebrating & entertaining
- a good time was had by all idiom
- amuse
- amused
- bacchanalian
- banquet
- entertain
- entertaining
- go to town idiom
- have a whale of a time idiom
- host
- kill
- kill the fatted calf idiom
- perform
- push
- revelry
- scintillate
- see in the New Year idiom
- spirit
- take sb out of himself/herself
- town
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