make the most of
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make the most of (third-person singular simple present makes the most of, present participle making the most of, simple past and past participle made the most of)
- (idiomatic, transitive) To realise the maximal value, worth, or potential of (something); to derive as much benefit or profit from (something) as is possible.
- 1841, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “(please specify the essay number)”, in Essays, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, →OCLC:
- Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
- 2011 January 25, Les Roopanarine, “Wigan 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC[1]:
- But with the home side likewise unable to make the most of a period of first-half ascendancy, Villa were swift to make amends on the restart.
- 2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 13, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation[2], 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 242:
- How much time you have doesn’t matter, when you really care about someone, if you make the most of it.
- 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
- As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.
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realise the maximal value, worth, or potential of
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