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The screw is broken. I think I should improvise a screw out of anything we can find around here.
The screw is broken. I think i should make do with anything around here.

I would improvise cookies for my dinner.
I would make do with cookies for my dinner.

Could you tell me how they are different?

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Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

The ***** is broken. I think I should improvise by making a ***** out of anything we can find around here.
The ***** is broken. I think I should make do with anything around here.
I could improvise by making cookies for dessert.
I would make do with cookies for dessert.

messier42Could you tell me how they are different?

'Improvise' is more formal.

Messier42 · Answer

I wanted to say that
I ate just cookies for my lunch becuase I did not have much time to eat a proper meal.
In this case, Can "make do with" be used?

Thank you!

Anonymous · Answer

This is how I would interpret these four sentences:1.  Look around and find something that can be fashioned into a *****-like device.  For example, press-fitting an oversized nail or wooden dowel into the hole.  Or wrapping wire around a nail and  "********" it into the hole, the wire then functioning like the threads of a *****.2.  Here you don't actually try to fashion a substitute for a *****.  For example, you might just run cord or wire through the hole and tie the two parts together.  Or you might discard the item you were trying to ***** together and use something else in place of it.  For example, if you were trying to assemble a stand, which required the *****, you'd just discard the stand and use stacked boxes instead.3.  You don't have the required ingredients to make cookies, that is, flour, baking powder, sugar, etc.  But you want cookies, and so you substitute other things for the required ingredients.  For flour, you substitute toasted bread ground up in a food processor.  You don't use leavening in the recipe.  For sugar, you substitute raisins run through a food processor.4.  You have nothing to eat in the house except a box of cookies, and so you eat cookies for dinner.

Messier42 · Answer

I felt touched by your reply. It was of great help!!!!!!!

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