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make a fortune

make a fortune

Also, make a small fortune. Earn a great deal of money, as in He made a fortune on the stock market. Similar expressions are be worth a fortune or small fortune , as in Now that their parents have died, they're worth a small fortune. Make a fortune dates from about 1700, and its use with small from the second half of the 1800s.
See also: fortune, make

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Anthelme-French
Miljana-Serbian
Arend-Dutch, German
Burcu-Turkish
Rochelle-English
Midhat-Arabic
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