to make an entrance
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4.9
- phrasal verb
:
hacer una entrada
- At the party, he decided to make an entrance by arriving in a fancy sports car that turned heads.
- know how to make an entrance
- like to make an entrance
- want to make an entrance
Examples
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Her mother made an entrance, sweeping in like royalty entering the grand ballroom.
Fiction book (1992) -
Boy, you sure know how to make an entrance.
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Does this guy know how to make an entrance or what?
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And that is how you make an entrance.
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I think Lady Bird wants to make an entrance.
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Well, you know I like to make an entrance.
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We like to make an entrance.
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I want to make an entrance with my daughter
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He knew how to make an entrance, and he knew how to make you laugh.
Blog text (33) -
Like any great dancer, Benjamin Millepied knows how to make an entrance.
Blog text (25)
Synonyms
∞
1.4
To be seen or arrive at a place
∞
1.0
To go into a building, room, or area
396
1.6
To enter a room or building by walking without knocking
82
2.1
Begin to appear or become visible
36
3.1
Act quickly without thinking, for example by going into a place
21
3.3
To enter a room suddenly and interrupt people
11
3.9
Get a lot of attention in an exciting way
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5.2
Go into a room or conversation suddenly and interrupt people
1
5.1
Become the main focus of people's attention after doing something important
1
3.8
To come into a situation and begin to take part or change it
Act in a loud way to get attention and impress people
Antonyms
How Dramatic
- Informal
14
3.7
9
4.9
∞
1.0
- Informal
75
3.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is largely compositional: a learner who knows 'make' and 'entrance' can infer it involves causing or performing an entry/arrival. However, the specific pragmatic nuance — arriving in a noticeable, dramatic, or attention-getting way — is an extra idiomatic/colloquial layer that is not fully predictable from the constituents, so comprehension may be partial without prior exposure.
Etymology
Make an entrance comes from the stage. Actors would make an entrance by stepping through the curtain with a big step or surprise to get the audience's attention. So it means 'to arrive in a way that is noticeable'.