Make it
Make it verb - Succeed in a big way; get to the top.
Pay
Pay verb - To give (someone) the sum of money owed for goods or services received.
Both terms in one sentence
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Routing a call through a taped-together pair of pay phones to make it "untraceable".
Source: Pay Phone -
Not all of them make it out, and Murphy at best is getting a half pay retirement.
Source: A Friend in Need -
Make It Look Like an Accident: Jims old Army friends pay Longfellow a visit and deliberately infect him with lethal meningitis so he appears to have died in surgery.
Source: Webcomic / Better Days
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