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make do and mend
make do and mend
(British old-fashioned) to manage with less than you would like, by repairing old things instead of buying new ones Our family never had any new furniture. We just had to make do and mend.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Nanna (2) | | - | Near Eastern Mythology |
| Fearchar | | - | Irish, Scottish |
| Viliam | | - | Slovak |
| Sita | | - | Hinduism, Indian, Hindi, Nepali |
| Augustin | | o-goos-TEN (French) | French, Czech, Romanian, Croatian, German |
| Tecumseh | | te-KUM-se | Native American, Shawnee |