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to make fetch happen

to make fetch happen

9.9
To try to get a new word or fashion to become popular
  • phrasal verb
  • Slang
translation icon : hacer que se ponga de moda
  • The marketing team is trying to make fetch happen by promoting the new trend on social media.

Examples

  • Despite the negative reviews, the new product launch aimed to make fetch happen with catchy advertisements.

  • It's like in Mean Girls and trying to make "fetch" happen.

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  • The influencers are desperately attempting to make fetch happen with their viral dance challenge.

Synonyms

to push
vsto make fetch happen
262 4.0

To try to sell something forcefully, often illegal goods

tries to win wide acceptance rather than using forceful promotion
to make it happen
vsto make fetch happen
143 3.0

Get something you want by working to reach it

focuses specifically on gaining wide public acceptance
to popularize
vsto make fetch happen
  • US
21 4.2

To make an idea, activity, or subject known and liked by many people

tries to achieve that even when it lacks natural appeal
to galvanize support
vsto make fetch happen
1 5.8

To make people excited and ready to help a cause

aims for broad public acceptance instead of only active support

How Popular

to go viral
  • Texting
61 3.8
to take off
86 3.0
to catch on
37 3.9
to make fetch happen
  • Slang
9.9
lost on
42 7.4

Surface Forms

make fetch happen infinitive
made fetch happen past
made fetch happen past participle
making fetch happen present participle
makes fetch happen third person singular

Morphology

make + fetch + happen

The verb frame 'make ... happen' is compositional, but here the key word 'fetch' is used as slang (popularized by the movie Mean Girls) meaning something like 'cool' or 'popular' — a non-literal, culture-specific use not derivable from the ordinary dictionary senses. A B1 learner who knows the literal meanings of 'make', 'fetch' (standard senses), and 'happen' would not be able to predict this idiomatic/pop‑culture sense, so the expression is opaque.

Etymology

The idiom make fetch happen comes from the movie Mean Girls, where a girl tries to make the slang word fetch become 'cool'. So people now use make fetch happen to say someone is trying hard to make something 'popular' when it really isn't.