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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

What time do you [make it]?

What time do you make it?

I'd like to know here what meaning "make it" has.
Thank you in advance for your help.
  

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” The meaning is that my determination of the time based on my wrist watch is 10:31 (am/pm). The expression ‘make it’ might originate from ‘make it out to be’, from the difficulty that was experienced in reading clocks and timepieces with Roman Numerals that were small. ’

  • ” The meaning is that my determination of the time based on my wrist watch is 10:31 (am/pm).
  • The expression ‘make it’ might originate from ‘make it out to be’, from the difficulty that was experienced in reading clocks and timepieces with Roman Numerals that were small.
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“I make it ‘ten-thirty-one’ by my watch.”
The meaning is that my determination of the time based on my wrist watch is 10:31 (am/pm).
The expression ‘make it’ might originate from ‘make it out to be’, from the difficulty that was experienced in reading clocks and timepieces with Roman Numerals that were small. We also use ‘I can’t make out if that’s a motorboat or a sailboat on the horizon

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