make friends

Idioms  

1. Form a friendship, foster cordial feelings, as in I hope Brian will soon make friends at school, or She's done a good job of making friends with influential reporters. [c. 1600]

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Example Sentences

“This trainer says that if you could make friends with that monkey he would probably do anything you wanted him to do.”

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“Grandpa, I don’t think that trainer knows what he’s talking about. Why, you couldn’t make friends with that monkey in a hundred years.”

From Literature

Grandpa made everything sound so simple and I was feeling so good I would have been willing to try to make friends with a grizzly bear.

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“Another thing, Grandpa,” I said, “what could I say to that monkey to make friends with him? I don’t know how to talk to a monkey.”

From Literature

“Grandpa,” I said, “if I can’t make friends with that monkey it won’t be my fault because I’ll sure be trying. I just hope no one sees me down in those bottoms talking to a monkey. Why, they would put me in the crazy house sure as shootin’.”

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