Meanings
- idiomaticimperativeinformalUsed to express the absurdity of a situation.First known use 21st c.
Y'all I can't with these discriminatory hiring practices. I was just rejected from a role for not being technical enough when I asked for more feedback was told it was a lack of familiarity with the technology they were using. I wrote the package they're using. Make it make sense
2022 April 2, Stephon Does Tech 👨🏾💻⚡️🇺🇦 (@stephondoestech), Twitter1 more example
“Another day to be reminded that women can also be the patriarchy,” Waterhouse tweeted, tagging Gossip Girl writer Lila Feinberg. “Seeing critiques of the patriarchy and sexism, then I get name-checked as somebody’s nobody girlfriend,” she continued in a second tweet. “Make it make sense.”
2022 December 30, Carrie Wittmer, “Robert Pattinson and Suki Waterhouse: A Complete Relationship Timeline”, in Glamour - Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, it, make sense: find some sense in it; cause it to have some sense to it.
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[…] are acting on a belief whose content is that these things make sense to do. And, I suggest, this belief counts as knowledge if it stems from noticing that some features of actions make them make more or less sense to do, when it is the features of the action that in fact make it make sense that grounds their judgment about the case, and when they reliably (though not infallibly) discriminate the sensible from the inadvisable.
2006, Mark van Roojen, “Chapter 6. Knowing Enough to Disagree: A New Response to the Moral Twin Earth Argument”, in Russ Shafer-Landau, editor, Oxford Studies in Metaethics, volume 1, Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 189
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