make a/one's bed

make a/one's bed
(to tidy and straighten the sheets, blankets etc on a bed after it has been used: The children make their own beds every morning.) faire le/son lit

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  • To make up one's mind — make make, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {made} (m[=a]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {making}.] [OE. maken, makien, AS. macian; akin to OS. mak?n, OFries. makia, D. maken, G. machen, OHG. mahh?n to join, fit, prepare, make, Dan. mage. Cf. {Match} an equal.] 1. To… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • make one's bed and lie in it — To be responsible for what you have done and so to have to accept the bad results. * /Billy smoked one of his father s cigars and now he is sick. He made his bed, now let him lie in it./ Compare: FACE THE MUSIC(2) …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • make one's bed and lie in it — To be responsible for what you have done and so to have to accept the bad results. * /Billy smoked one of his father s cigars and now he is sick. He made his bed, now let him lie in it./ Compare: FACE THE MUSIC(2) …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • make\ one's\ bed\ and\ lie\ in\ it — To be responsible for what you have done and so to have to accept the bad results. Billy smoked one of his father s cigars and now he is sick. He made his bed, now let him lie in it. Compare: face the music(2) …   Словарь американских идиом

  • make one's bed and lie in it — be responsible for what one has done and then have to accept the bad results You quit your job and now you have no money. You made your bed. Now you must lie in it …   Idioms and examples

  • make — make, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {made} (m[=a]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {making}.] [OE. maken, makien, AS. macian; akin to OS. mak?n, OFries. makia, D. maken, G. machen, OHG. mahh?n to join, fit, prepare, make, Dan. mage. Cf. {Match} an equal.] 1. To cause to …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Bed — Bed, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bedded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bedding}.] 1. To place in a bed. [Obs.] Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. To make partaker of one s bed; to cohabit with. [1913 Webster] I ll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her. Shak. [1913 Webster] 3 …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • bed — bedless, adj. bedlike, adj. /bed/, n., v., bedded, bedding. n. 1. a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well. 2. the mattress and bedclothes together with the bedstead of a bed. 3. the bedstead… …   Universalium

  • bed — n. article of furniture for sleeping 1) to make, make up a bed 2) to undo a bed 3) to lie, stay in bed; to lie, sit on a bed 4) to get out of bed 5) to take to one s bed ( to remain in bed because of illness ) 6) a double; king size; queen size;… …   Combinatory dictionary

  • bed — See: GET UP ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE BED, GO TO BED WITH THE CHICKENS, MAKE ONE S BED AND LIE IN IT, PUT TO BED …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • bed — See: GET UP ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE BED, GO TO BED WITH THE CHICKENS, MAKE ONE S BED AND LIE IN IT, PUT TO BED …   Dictionary of American idioms

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