make yourself useful
Frequency: 5.03.0 per million words
to help in a situation instead of doing nothing
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Examples (10)
- She told Fred to make himself useful.
- If you want to help, go make yourself useful in the kitchen.
- Instead of complaining, he decided to make himself useful by clearing the table.
- You could make yourself useful by organizing these files.
- If everyone would just make themselves useful, this job would be done faster.
- He's always trying to make himself useful around the office.
- In any group project, it's important for each member to make themselves useful.
- The new intern quickly learned how to make herself useful by assisting with data entry.
- Don't just stand there; make yourself useful!
- Come on, let's all make ourselves useful and get this finished.