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Phrase(s): make someone’s bed (up)
Go to make the bed (up)., Phrase(s): make one’s (own) bed
1. Lit. to restore order to the bedclothes on one’s own bed. • Jimmy, you are old enough to make your own bed. 2. Fig. to be the cause of one’s own misery. • Well, I guess I made my own bed. Now I have to lie in it. • "We all make our own beds," said the minister.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs