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Idiom
Make a meal.
If someone makes a meal of something, they spend too long doing it or make it look more difficult than it really is.
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In a pinch, they knew, they could build a fire on one of the Islas Marías and make a meal of something they'd caught.
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Make a meal of Shakespeare's Romeo.
I could make a meal of them.
You could easily make a meal of starters and desserts.
Could you make a meal of tapas alone?
I could make a meal of Mr. Nanneti's appetizers.
Though I could make a meal of what I buy there without much cooking at all (and will, and do, and have), a good deli can also be a starting point for a fine simple meal, whether it is a dead-easy satisfying pasta or something more elaborate.
They make a meal of the lavish, liberally placed samples.
It takes a lot of self-belief to make such a meal of something 'everyone knows'.
England made a meal of their reply.
I could have made a meal of them alone.
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