Make out
Make out verb - To meet one's day-to-day needs.
To hear
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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Lampshaded and mocked by Terry Pratchett in Hogfather, with the comment that the sound of children at play is a wonderful thing to hear, provided you're too far away to make out what they're saying.
Source: Children Are Innocent -
Already stressed from the experience, she feels Piper and Leo starting to make out in the other room, and shouts out "Not now, I have a headache" loud enough for them to hear and stop in confusion.
Source: Dirty Mind-Reading - Also, in the fourth book Plague, when Sam and Astrid the Genius are having some relationship problems it says that Astrid told him he could go make out with someone else, only she used a phrase Sam was really surprised to hear coming from good Christian girl Astrid's lips.
Source: Narrative Profanity Filter
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