make+difficult
81make a virtue of necessity — verb To make the best of a difficult situation; to recast or portray an action or situation in which one has no alternatives as an action or situation which was deliberately chosen on its merits. Indeed, because you are a banishd man …
82make matters worse — v. make a bad situation worse, cause a difficult situation become more awful …
83make a meal — If someone makes a meal of something, they spend too long doing it or make it look more difficult than it really is. (Dorking School Dictionary) …
84make headway — 1) to make progress with something that you are trying to achieve They have made some headway towards resolving the dispute. 2) to move forwards, especially when it is difficult …
85make heavy weather of something — to make a situation or job more difficult than it really is …
86make yourself scarce — to stay away from a particular place in order to avoid a difficult or embarrassing situation Dad s pretty mad – you d better make yourself scarce …
87make a virtue of necessity — idi to make the best of a difficult or unsatisfactory situation …
88make it hot for someone — tv. to make things difficult for someone; to put omeone under pressure. (Note the variation in the examples.) □ The cops were making it hot for him, so he blew town. □ The boss is making it a little hot for me, so I had better get to work on time …
89make matters worse — verb To worsen an already difficult situation or unfavourable set of circumstances, typically by acting rashly, foolishly, or incompetently. His resentful attitude only made matters worse during the custody proceedings …
90hard cases make bad law — Difficult cases cause the clarity of the law to be obscured by exceptions and strained interpretations. 1854 G. HAYES in W. S. Holdsworth Hist. English Law (1926) IX. 423 A hard case. But hard cases make bad law. 1945 W. S. CHURCHILL in Hansard… …