Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
make it work for you
English answer:
solve your problems, enable you to get what you want
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Charles Davis
Apr 22, 2015 07:50
9 yrs ago
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English term
make it work for you
English
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
He wonders, given the caliber of the management, just how many of the bottles actually contain what their labels indicate,and how many are diluted or filled with cheaper brands, younger blends, knock-offs, generic vodka:give us a dollar and we'll make it work for you.
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Charles Davis
Spain
Spain
Native in English
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English
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Spain
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solve your problems, enable you to get what you want
I think the sense of this expression is very general here. "Make it work" just means "make things work", "it" being whatever it is you happen to want. I don't think it refers to making the alcohol work. A few lines later it says "Make a wish, and your army of harlot bottles will respond": the alcohol, they seem to be claiming, will grant your wishes, make your dreams come true.
Of course, this is understood to be ironic: they implicit claim is obviously phony.
Of course, this is understood to be ironic: they implicit claim is obviously phony.
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Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Ireland
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English
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Ireland
right word, right place. everytime
Native in: English (Variants: US, Canadian, Irish, UK) 
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, English, and 1 more.
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make it (the cheap vodka) make you drunk
a cheaper way of getting drunk...generic vodka rather than branded stuff
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Note added at 10 mins (2015-04-22 08:00:51 GMT)
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Make it work for=do what you want it to do
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Note added at 10 mins (2015-04-22 08:00:51 GMT)
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Make it work for=do what you want it to do
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give you a good return on your (dollar) investment
He is wondering whether the alcohol in the bottles is really what it claims to be or whether it's "diluted or filled with cheaper brands, younger blends, knock-offs, generic vodka". This leads him on to the thought of people having been enticed to profit from investments in such fake or adulterated drink, which he is being cheated for.
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Charles Davis
: If anyone adulterated these drinks it was surely the bar management itself. I don't think they were enticed to invest in fake drink. The punter pays a dollar for a glass of possibly dodgy hooch, but this guy doesn't care; he drinks Listerine.
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The more he is ripped off by those making a profit from counterfeit or watered-down alcohol, the less real alcohol he gets for his own dollar.
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