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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.
One of them, it seems, may not walk away from this five-years-in-the-making battle.
What on earth possessed the network to host this asterisk-in-the making?
We would then go across the road to the Culinary Institute, where cooks-in-the-making would strut their stuff.
And St. George will probably stroll in with the Alpine glow of a sermon-in-the-making still lighting up his eyes.
The author found a good example of folklore-in-the-making in the game usually known as "Run, Sheep, Run!"
And then, too, the book-in-the-making had grown in that room.
All the citizens-in-the-making are closely interested in politics.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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