in the making

Idioms and Phrases

In the process of developing or growing, being made, as in The editor believed this election signified history in the making . This term is frequently used to describe the course of events, as in the example. [Mid-1600s]

Example Sentences

ROME, Italy — The competition among Mafiosi-in-the-making can get pretty tough in Sicily.

From The Daily Beast

One of them, it seems, may not walk away from this five-years-in-the-making battle.

From The Daily Beast

What on earth possessed the network to host this asterisk-in-the making?

From The Daily Beast

We would then go across the road to the Culinary Institute, where cooks-in-the-making would strut their stuff.

From The Daily Beast

And St. George will probably stroll in with the Alpine glow of a sermon-in-the-making still lighting up his eyes.

From Project Gutenberg

The author found a good example of folklore-in-the-making in the game usually known as "Run, Sheep, Run!"

From Project Gutenberg

And then, too, the book-in-the-making had grown in that room.

From Project Gutenberg

All the citizens-in-the-making are closely interested in politics.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• bare
• incomplete
• unadorned
• undeveloped
• unfulfilled