Work & careers
make it
become successful
To make it means to become successful or achieve the goal you have been working towards.
Hear it in real life
Do you think your band will make it?
I hope so, but we still have a lot to learn.
He left school early, but he made it as a successful chef.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: She became it as a singer.
Say: She made it as a singer.
Use "make it as + role" to say someone succeeds in that profession; do not translate it as "become it."
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
make it; made it as a singer; make it in music
Compare it
Where this one sits next to the phrases it gets mixed up with.
Your turn: say it out loud
He left school early, but he made it as a successful chef.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
make it
become successful
“He left school early, but he made it as a successful chef.”
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