be on the make

be on the make informalto be trying to get money or power – used in order to show disapproval总是设法为自己谋求利益〔含贬义〕:•He was just a salesman on the make.他只是个一心想发财的推销员。

• disenchanter
• photoelasticity
• jobbers
• dichotomous question
• structural engineering
• cicatrisant
• theocentrically
• retrogression
• NHTSA
• self-employed
• equinox
• provisions
• Independence Days
• drop a point
• new deals
• entrainment
• power steerings
• asstd.
• deposit feeder
• raggings
• sociopathic
• be on acid
• Soudanese
• diazinon
• epileptiform
• tingle
• befriended
• woodchuck
• biotical
• for oneself
• chuck one's hand in
• Raabe's convergence test
• outhauler
• paranormal
• marriage
• separation disc
• chivied
• jeune premier
• rubbished
• supergranular
• Delphology
• Iphigenia
• uptrading
• relapse into silence
• single-copy DNA
• it stands to reason (that)
• salvage corps
• blasters
• polos
• yecchier
• NTE
• circumlocutionist
• Downpatrick
• lallygagging
• denticule
• branched
• undergrown
• bad pennyworth
• nooklike
• day-sight
• circular buffering
• rock cakes
• active prominence region
• hoarsenesses
• Thessaly
• malanders
• put to the torch （或put a torch to）
• exponential curves
• strike home
• au fond
• spruciest
• sacramentary
• conjunctival
• press the trigger
• communal
• catchweed
• ALWT
• podaxaceaes
• factualnesses
• do someone wrong
• managed
• CCIB
• without anyone's being the wiser
• riedenite
• morbilliviruss
• calkin
• lap welder
• horse around / about
• crime passionnels
• soft shower
• back matter
• aches and pains
• instead
• spread upon
• pursiest
• Cant.
• Hera
• birdies
• policed
• discontinuities