The lumberjack made away with a great stack of pancakes.
Two masked men held up the clerk and made away with the payroll.
Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". Оригинал: A.Маккей, М.Т.Боткер, Дж.И.Гейтс. 1997.
make away with — ► make away with 1) another way of saying make off with. 2) kill furtively and illicitly. Main Entry: ↑make … English terms dictionary
make away with — index dispatch (put to death), distrain Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
make away with — 1 she decided to make away with him: KILL, murder, dispatch, eliminate; informal bump off, do away with, do in, do for, knock off, top, croak, stiff, blow away; N. Amer. informal ice, rub out, smoke, waste; poetic/lite … Useful english dictionary
make away with — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms make away with : present tense I/you/we/they make away with he/she/it makes away with present participle making away with past tense made away with past participle made away with make away with something to… … English dictionary
make away with — 1. to kill The victims are usually domestic animals. Of humans, usually reflexive and referring to suicide: ... ready to make away with themselves. (R. Burton, 1621) 2. to steal The act of physical removal … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
make away with — {v.}, {informal} Take; carry away; cause to disappear. * /The lumberjack made away with a great stack of pancakes./ * /Two masked men held up the clerk and made away with the payroll./ Compare: MAKE OFF … Dictionary of American idioms
make away with — {v.}, {informal} Take; carry away; cause to disappear. * /The lumberjack made away with a great stack of pancakes./ * /Two masked men held up the clerk and made away with the payroll./ Compare: MAKE OFF … Dictionary of American idioms
make away with — take, carry away The cat made away with the fish that was sitting on top of the kitchen counter … Idioms and examples
make away with — another way of saying make off with. ↘ kill (someone). → make … English new terms dictionary
To make away with — Make Make (m[=a]k), v. i. 1. To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] A scurvy, jack a nape priest to meddle or make. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
