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make me

make me phrase: used to refuse a request that one do something.

Phrase

make me

  1. (childish, sarcastic) Used to refuse a request that one do something.
    • 🙎♀️You really need to clean your room!
      👧Make me!
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, me.
    • “I wish you would make me a sandwich or two with your own hands, my mother,” he said. “Susan’s sandwiches are not appetising.”1886, Mary Linskill, “The Haven under the Hill”, in Donald Macleod, editor, Good Words, London: Isbister and Company, […], chapter LXI (“One Last Kiss upon the Living Shore”), page 839, column 2

Origin of make me

From make in the sense of "force", i.e. "you will have to force me to do it".

Questions about make me

What does make me mean?
Make me means used to refuse a request that one do something.
What part of speech is make me?
Make me is a phrase.

Words near make me in the dictionary

  1. make little of
  2. make love
  3. make love to the camera
  4. make love, not war
  5. make matters worse
  6. make me
  7. make meat
  8. make mention
  9. make mention of
  10. make merry
  11. make mileage out of

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