make unnecessary
1make unnecessary — verb make unnecessary an expenditure or effort This will save money I ll save you the trouble This will save you a lot of time • Syn: ↑save • Hypernyms: ↑prevent, ↑forestall, ↑ …
2make unnecessary — v. make redundant; avoid unnecessary use or expenditure, save; do unnecessary effort …
3make a song and dance about something — british informal phrase to complain a lot about something in an annoying and unnecessary way Every morning she made a great song and dance about getting ready for school. Thesaurus: to complainsynonym Main entry: song * * * …
4Make (software) — make Original author(s) Stuart Feldman Initial release 1977 Type build automation tool In software development, Make is a utility that automatically builds executable programs and libraries from source code by rea …
5make heavy weather of — ► make heavy weather of informal have unnecessary difficulty in dealing with (a task or problem). [ORIGIN: from the nautical phrase make good or bad weather of it, referring to a ship in a storm.] Main Entry: ↑weather …
6make a song and dance about — (something) Brit informal 1 : to cause a lot of excitement about (something) The film is nothing to make a song and dance about. 2 : to complain about (something) in a way that is excessive or unnecessary He was making a big song and dance about… …
7make a meal of Brit. — make a meal of Brit. informal carry out (a task) with unnecessary effort or thoroughness. → meal …
8make a meal of — ► make a meal of Brit. informal carry out (a task) with unnecessary effort. Main Entry: ↑meal …
9make — I UK [meɪk] / US verb Word forms make : present tense I/you/we/they make he/she/it makes present participle making past tense made UK [meɪd] / US past participle made *** Get it right: make: When make means to cause or force someone to do… …
10unnecessary — adj. VERBS ▪ appear, be, prove, seem ▪ become ▪ make sth, render sth ▪ consider sth …
