make up (something/a story/an excuse)
сочинять, придумывать, импровизировать
Mary couldn't afford lessons in conventional dancing, so she made up dances of her own.
Другие идиомы:
- make a monkey out of (someone)
- make a mountain out of a molehill
- make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
- monkey around with (someone or something)
- monkey business
- monkey on one's back
- monkey see, monkey do
- more fun than a barrel of monkeys
- make a clean breast of (something)
- make no bones about (something)
- make (someone's) blood boil
- make (someone's) blood run cold
- make (someone's) flesh crawl
- millstone around (someone's) neck
- make a cold call