To make do with

[Elisabetta]

Test No. express/elem-2 "Take it in", question 9

We don't have enough money for a car so we make do with bicycles.

(a) use many times
(b) use instead
(c) use sometimes
(d) use always

Test No. express/elem-2 "Take it in", answer 9

We don't have enough money for a car so we use instead bicycles.

Correct answer: (b) use instead

Your answer was: correct
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I have never heard this expression 'make do with'
can you give me other examples please?

[Torsten]

To make do with means to manage with or with what is available, esp. as an inferior or temporary substitute.
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