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make a fist of en · VERB
Meanings
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(idiomatic, informal) To do (something) reasonably successfully.
He had a go at the restaurant business and made a fairly decent fist of it.
As Dodd – perhaps the only contemporary entertainer who might have made a fist of it – has discovered, in order to survive in a pitiless, hostile environment, you really can't beat a good drum.
2011, Stephen Griffin, Ken Dodd: The Biography:
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Antonyms
make a poor fist of