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make or mar (someone or something)

To cause someone or something to either succeed or to fail; to cause either a positive or negative outcome for someone or something. Primarily heard in UK. When you're young, you often think that big obstacles will either make or mar you, but as you get older you realize that it's not that simple. It all comes down to this penalty shot. One kick will make or mar their season.
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mar up

To scuff, scratch, dent, or otherwise ruin the smooth surface of something. A noun or pronoun can be used between "mar" and "up." You're going to mar up your screen if you carry your phone around in your pocket without a protective cover of some kind. Look at my brand new car! Someone scraped along the side and totally marred it up!
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mar something up

to dent or scratch something; to harm the smooth finish of something. Please don't mar the furniture up. Don't mar up my desk.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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References in periodicals archive
As on Earth, dust devils on Mars arise from atmospheric turbulence.
"In Canada, science interest for Mars is there," he says.
"It looks like [the area] was a water-rich environment at some time in Mars' history," says Jeffrey R.
Meanwhile, the Mars rovers are helping to promote robotics.
In the days that followed, scientists were equally overjoyed at the high quality of the color photographs Spirit sent of the Mars surface.
1960-1964: The Soviet Union launches six probes to Mars including one lander.
All of this means that there's something inherently interesting about Joel Glenn Brenner's The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars, an often entertaining but ultimately thin mix of business and cultural history.
In The Case for Mars, Robert Zubrin and Richard Wagner present a powerful and pragmatic argument for near-term exploration and colonization of our celestial neighbor.
Mars's autobiographical play, which runs through February 16, chronicles her sexual journey--for fun and for money.
According to Genesis, over a century from now, the United Nations sends "Chance" Van Riebeck and a team of scientists to survey Mars as part of the Ares Project.
Over the past 3 decades, spacecraft and rovers have gathered compelling evidence that liquid water once existed in abundance on Mars. These data include images of channel networks gouged in the planet's surface (SN: 5/28/05,p.
What concerns does the cartoonist seem to have about human exploration of Mars?--
George Bush wants the United States to go to Mars: he's recently given several speeches on the subject.
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