A dictionary of Confusable Phrases: More Than 10,000 Idioms and Collocations

keep someone on the boil
— sustain smb.’s interest or enthusiasm:
There needs to be some ongoing process to keep the issues be -
fore people, keep them on the boil, keep up the enthusiasm.
make someone’s blood freeze —(also: make someone’s blood run
cold) horrify or shock a person: What he saw made his blood
freeze: An arrow had hit Lighur directly into the forehead.
make sport for someone • make sport of someone
make sport for someone —provide amusement for a person:
The squire made sport for the children of the village by engag-
ing a Circus for the week.
make sport of someone —ridicule smb.; jest at a person: We
made sport of the old couple who kept the Bull; and they
deserved it for always giving short measures.
make the feathers fly • make the fur fly
make the feathers fly —(coll.) 
1
. (also: make the dust fly) start
working with the utmost vigor: When Mrs. Hale did her
spring cleaning she made the feathers fly. 2. quarrel violently;
create a disturbance: Let’s keep our sense of humor and try
not to make the feathers fly in all this controversy.
make the fur fly — = make the feathers fly 2: When the boss
finds out that they failed to secure the contract, he will cer-
tainly make the fur fly.
make time for someone • make time with someone
make time for someone —schedule time to see a person: She
makes time for kids who are less fortunate, visiting sick chil-
dren in hospitals in the cities where she competes.
make time with someone —(coll.) make romantic advances;
flirt with a person: John plays the tough guy who tries to make
time with the café cashier, whom Buster secretly loves.
make up for someone • make up on someone •
make up to someone • make up with someone
make up for someone —take the place of smb. who is absent,
can’t work, etc.: Have you got a supply of new friends to make
up for those who are gone?
make up on someone —(Sport) gain on a contestant who is
ahead of one in a race: He managed to make up on other run-
ners in the race.