Make
Tell to
Both terms in one sentence
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Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: One of the jokes Murray can tell to a stern Belgian to make him laugh is on a chicken crossing the road to France, because it was not a Turkey, or a Turk.
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This is certainly the case in the anime; in the second novel this "Earth is invading Faery for resources" story is a lie that the JAM clones tell to Gavin Mayle to try to make him do a FaceHeel Turn.
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It's like a story you tell to make yourself feel better.
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Tell to and Make. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/make/tell_to
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Tell to or Make. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/make/tell_to.
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