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make out to be

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make something out to be (something else)

to portray something as something else. You are trying to make this tragedy out to be a minor matter. They made the disease out to be something far more serious than it really is.

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make somebody out to be something

to represent someone as being something He was not the monster that everyone made him out to be.

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