make+an+offer
91exchange offer — an offer by an issuer of debt securities to exchange new securities with less onerous provisions for currently outstanding securities. Companies often make exchange offers in an attempt to avoid bankruptcy (Glossary of Common Bankruptcy Terms)… …
92To make one a compliment — Compliment Com pli*ment, n. [F. compliment. It complimento, fr. comlire to compliment, finish, suit, fr. L. complere to fill up. See {Complete}, and cf. {Complement}.] An expression, by word or act, of approbation, regard, confidence, civility,… …
93To make one's compliments to — Compliment Com pli*ment, n. [F. compliment. It complimento, fr. comlire to compliment, finish, suit, fr. L. complere to fill up. See {Complete}, and cf. {Complement}.] An expression, by word or act, of approbation, regard, confidence, civility,… …
94To make one's manners — Manner Man ner, n. [OE. manere, F. mani[ e]re, from OF. manier, adj., manual, skillful, handy, fr. (assumed) LL. manarius, for L. manuarius belonging to the hand, fr. manus the hand. See {Manual}.] 1. Mode of action; way of performing or… …
95you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink — This idiom means you can offer something to someone, like good advice, but you cannot make them take it …
96mandatory offer — Under the Blue Book, when an investor either obtains control or consolidates control in a company which is covered by the Blue Book, he must make a mandatory offer to buy out all the other shareholders. Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein financial… …
97Do you want to make something of it? — something that you say to someone who disagrees with you in order to threaten them and offer to fight them. That s my beer you re drinking. Do you want to make something of it? …
98You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink — This idiom means you can offer something to someone, like good advice, but you cannot make them take it …
99tender offer — / tendə ˌɒfə/ noun a method of selling new securities or bonds by asking investors to make of fers for them, and accepting the highest offers …
100Offered — Offer Of fer, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Offered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Offering}.] [OE. offren, {AS}. offrian to sacrifice, fr. L. offerre; ob (see {OB }) + ferre to bear, bring. The English word was influenced by F. offrir to offer, of the same origin.… …
