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make garden

idiom
Meaning

To plant or maintain a garden, especially a vegetable garden.


Examples
SIMPLE

We like to make garden every spring.

CONTEXTUAL

After moving to the countryside, they decided to make garden in the backyard to grow their own vegetables.

COMPLEX

They spent the entire weekend making garden, carefully preparing the soil and planting seeds in anticipation of the summer harvest.

Anchors to
Related idioms8entries
  1. 01

    cannot make it

    Cannot reach satisfactory or expected standards or do something competently; describes someone in a hopeless situation.

  2. 02

    common or garden variety

    An ordinary, standard kind.

  3. 03

    doctors make the worst patients

    It is difficult to advise people on subjects that they are experts on.

  4. 04

    enough to make a cat laugh

    Very outlandish or outrageous.

  5. 05

    enough to make the angels weep

    Something so distressing that it causes one to lose hope and faith.

  6. 06

    everything in the garden is rosy

    Things are going well; everything is fine.

  7. 07

    fine feathers make fine birds

    Something that appears beautiful or good is by definition beautiful or good.

  8. 08

    garden variety

    Ordinary, common, or unexceptional.

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