Meanings
verbmake one's bed (third-person singular simple present makes one's bed, present participle making one's bed, simple past and past participle made one's bed)
present singular third person makes one's bed · participle present making one's bed · participle past made one's bed · past made one's bed
- abbreviationellipsisfigurativelyEllipsis of make one's bed and lie in it.
But if you’ve made your bed with the idea that conservatism is going to remain MAGA — well, then he’s made it complicated.
2025 November 15, Robert Draper, quoting Jonah Goldberg, “Once He Was ‘Just Asking Questions.’ Now Tucker Carlson Is the Question.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC - literallyTo make the bed in which one has slept.
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