make a good / bad fist of sth

make a good / bad fist of sth BrE informalto make a successful or unsuccessful attempt to do something做成/做不成某事

• convections
• triennium
• sortilegic
• Mister Big
• smilingest
• gnotobiote
• actual height
• with holding tax
• aluminium borohydride
• take something under advisement
• sharp-cut
• ruggedization
• creosote bushes
• Burman
• Nicholas
• nail sth↔down
• vantage ground
• Panza, Sancho
• land-control operations
• inc.
• glycosidic
• single-pole single-throw
• vellicative
• worst-cases
• pathics
• bring something to someone's notice
• without prejudice to
• factoried
• amperage
• Worcester, Joseph Emerson
• cast out
• electrohydraulically
• cutlips minnow
• pro-family
• Stigeoclonium
• hibernators
• retrofire time
• sweet birches
• interrogated
• ane thole
• standard antenna
• skin paint
• Krebs cycle
• thyroiditis
• walk in sb’s shoes
• contractile
• Perischoechinoidea
• disprovable
• rememberably
• amorph
• rousingly
• R.R.T.
• praise
• tumultuous
• benzyl bromide
• Cicero
• fashion statement
• paid
• isomerism
• consulted
• inversion casting
• the season of goodwill
• bigger bang for a buck
• wide-angle lens
• seasonableness
• Cerophytidae
• throw a word to someone as a bone to a dog
• bring someone to the scratch
• ABS
• Secy.
• jackasseries
• fiddle into
• monoicous
• roentgenoscopy
• the King's English
• Mergenthaler, Ottmar
• who're
• sb's likes and dislikes
• Segre, Emilio
• eye-catcher
• inexpensivenesses
• primevally
• imperishablenesses
• misericordes
• precaution
• magnetic resonance
• goodies and baddies
• ripplings
• housemate
• merchant mariner
• Moreau, Jean Victor
• bedewer
• gangmasters
• cationics
• piece sth↔together
• imambara
• heterocaryotic
• phocomelia
• hearsays
• at choice