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fake it till one makes it

fake it till one makes it verb: to pretend to be a certain way until one becomes that way.

Verb

fake it till one makes it (third-person singular simple present fakes it till one makes it, present participle faking it till one makes it, simple past and past participle faked it till one made it)

  1. To pretend to be a certain way until one becomes that way.
    • It gave me a chance to be able to see certain things that I like, and I was like, I just had to find my way, what I was good at in life so I could get those things. I just had to um… fake it till I make it.2015, 9:32 from the start, in Lauren Greenfield, director, Magic City (documentary)
    • He framed her crimes as “chutzpah” and “moxie”, arguing that the accepted rule of New York’s elite social scene was “fake it until you make it”. He also blamed the influence of social media-obsessed culture.2019 May 31, Edward Helmore, “'Fake it until you make it': the strange case of New York's socialite scammer”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2019

Forms of fake it till one makes it

third-person singular presentfakes it till one makes it
present participlefaking it till one makes it
past participlefaked it till one made it
pastfaked it till one made it
alternative formfake it until one makes it

Questions about fake it till one makes it

What does fake it till one makes it mean?
Fake it till one makes it means to pretend to be a certain way until one becomes that way.
What part of speech is fake it till one makes it?
Fake it till one makes it is a verb.
What is the past tense of fake it till one makes it?
The past tense of fake it till one makes it is faked it till one made it.

Words near fake it till one makes it in the dictionary

  1. fake fen
  2. fake geek girl
  3. fake geek girls
  4. fake good
  5. fake it
  6. fake it till one makes it
  7. fake it until one makes it
  8. fake news
  9. fake out
  10. fake PNG
  11. fake Shemp

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