| English | Russian |
| as there was little meat I had to make up with vegetables | недостаток мяса мне пришлось восполнить овощами |
| carotene may make up as much as 0,1% of dried green leaves | каротин может составлять даже до 0, 1% сухого веса зеленых листьев |
| make it up as one goes | сочинять на ходу (Anglophile) |
| make it up as one goes along | импровизировать (VLZ_58) |
| make it up as you go along | сочинять на ходу (TFPearce) |
| make up as an old man | одеться и загримироваться для роли старика (as a beggar, as Othello, etc., и т.д.) |
| make up as an old man | одеться и загримироваться стариком (as a beggar, as Othello, etc., и т.д.) |
| make up as goes | ориентироваться по ходу дела (make (something) up as (one) goes (along) To improvise continuously as one does something; to do something without formal guidelines, structure, rules, etc. None of us really knew how to play the game, so we just made it up as we went along. I completely forgot the rest of my speech halfway through, so I just started making the rest up as I went along. You can't just make up data as you go, you have to provide real evidence to support your hypothesis!  thefreedictionary.com Alexander Demidov) |
| make it up as one goes along | придумывать на ходу (I just made all that stuff up as I went along – я все это на ходу выдумал Рина Грант) |
| make something up as you go along | выдумывать на ходу (Taras) |
| make something up as you go along | импровизировать на ходу (- You don't have a plan, do you? You're making this up as you go along. – I managed to get us this far. – But you have no idea where to go from here. Taras) |
| make-up up a young man actor as an old man | загримировать молодого актёра стариком |
